Re: IPCP option for SIP server

Bernard Aboba <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pppext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> By running DHCPclient on the mobile while the mobile is using CDMA2000
> RAN, one  uses PPP to  obtain an IP  address and DHCPclient  to obtain
> other server parameters  and one needs to run both  the daemons on the
> client to get fully configured. PPP has to happen and then DHCP. For a
> rapidly moving client this may add to some optimization issue.

Actually, the opposite is true.  Doing IP configuration down in the link 
layer rather than in a single uniform way in the Internet layer would 
require hosts to implement a different configuration mechanism for each 
link type.  As hosts become increasingly multi-homed, this could lead to 
interoperability problems, code bloat, and slow handoffs. 

Since this question keeps coming up again and again, perhaps we need a 
document describing the basic principles.  A somewhat sketchy beginning is 
available here:
http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IAB/draft-iab-config-secure-00.txt


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