Re: SMTP option for DHCPv6

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote:

> Another point of difficulty here is that DHCP is mostly geared towards
> "host configuration" and not to "user-specific configuration". This has
> some security implications in application layer software--you may not want
> anonymous guest users using your mail server, or your mail server may
> require authentication (which won't work with guests), etc.
>
> Along the same lines, mail sessions are keyed to user identity, and user
> identity is independent of the current network topology, while DHCP is
> focused on topology identity.
>
> Having said all of that, defining the option could still be useful and the
> work should be done. But I wouldn't expect it to be used except in the
> minor subset of instances where the above factors coincide with actual
> installation considerations.

SMTP option for DHCP may not be entirely useful but SUBMIT option for
DHCP sure sounds to me like something quite useful and network-topology
dependent in many instances.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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