The DHCPv6 spec defines a well-known site-scoped multicast address that all DHCP servers listen on. Assuming a DHCP client has an address of sufficient scope to which a DHCP server can reply, the client can send an Information-Request message to that multicast address to contact a DHCp server without requiring a relay agent.
- Ralph At 03:27 AM 3/9/2002 +0100, Hesham Soliman (ERA) wrote: > > 1) The portions of DHCP that are required for post-addr-conf (sorry, > > don't have a better name for this) are pretty minimal, and I'm > > pretty sure that one can write conforming DHCP clients > > and servers > > that only implement that part of the DHCP spec (more > > precisely, the > > only thing that such implementations would have to do with the > > complex part of the spec would be to ignore the messages without > > crashing). Ralph, please correct me if I'm wrong about this. > > > >=> I don't have a great knowledge of DHCP but >wouldn't this simply message still require >a relay agent? -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
