Re: [Int-area] [dhcwg] [v6ops] Intro to draft-patterson-intarea-ipoe-health-00

2018-10-04 Thread Richard Patterson
Thanks Ole, understood. On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 14:33, Ole Troan wrote: > > Richard, > > > As a side-note, is it really that challenging or slow to get a new > > DHCP option assigned? Perhaps I'm showing my naivety here. > > Getting the DHCP option itself isn’t hard. But then you need to get it >

Re: [Int-area] [dhcwg] [v6ops] Intro to draft-patterson-intarea-ipoe-health-00

2018-10-04 Thread Ole Troan
Richard, > As a side-note, is it really that challenging or slow to get a new > DHCP option assigned? Perhaps I'm showing my naivety here. Getting the DHCP option itself isn’t hard. But then you need to get it deployed in DHCP servers, you need to get it deployed in DHCP clients. And you need

Re: [Int-area] [dhcwg] [v6ops] Intro to draft-patterson-intarea-ipoe-health-00

2018-10-04 Thread Richard Patterson
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 11:33, Ole Troan wrote: > Requiring the DHCP option makes a big difference in deployability. > Without it, I can implement this feature today. With it, I have to wait until > the DHCP option is standardised. And we would presumably get into a big > debate about what CE

Re: [Int-area] [dhcwg] [v6ops] Intro to draft-patterson-intarea-ipoe-health-00

2018-10-04 Thread Ole Troan
>> I'm not sure DHCP configuration is really needed. It seems like overkill. > > Other reviewers/commenters previously felt that this was a useful > addition. This would allow Network Operators to trigger or influence > the connectivity check on CE routers that they are not in TR.069/etc. >