Re: SMTP option for DHCPv6

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

> On 5/27/2005 11:33 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't see any other use for it (it's certainly not usable for
> mail-routing purposes, given that DHCP isn't intended to be available
> beyond a specific topology scope).

So perhaps we should not bother defining SMTP option for DHCPv6 at all
and just go ahead and do it under proper name.

This is not to say that SUBMIT server for particular network can not be 
located on port 25 as normal SMTP, but that would be up to that network 
to specify as part of DHCP SUBMIT information.

Same for DHCPv4 if SMTP option is not much used, it should possibly be 
depreciated and replaced by SUBMIT.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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