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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Ralph Droms/Bucknell University
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- The meeting began with a report from Russ Hobby describing address
- allocation in PPP. The DHC WG concluded that there's not much overlap
- between PPP and DHC. Next, Mark Rosenstein reviewed the Gateway
- Discovery WG meeting. The DHC WG decided that a DHC mechanism could
- pass an initial gateway without interfering with gateway discovery, with
- the proviso that any information from a gateway discovery protocol
- should override any DHC gateway information.
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- The WG agreed to concentrate on the following configuration information:
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- o IP address
- o Dynamic address allocation bounds
- o Subnet mask
- o Network broadcast address
- o Initial gateway
- o Subnet MTU
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- The WG further agreed to use bootp as a strawman protocol, with
- extensions for dynamic address allocation. The choice of bootp is
- intended to maximize compatibility with existing bootp clients and
- routers.
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- There are several specific issues that must be resolved if bootp is used
- as the DHC protocol:
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- o Is the bootp 576 byte packet limit a problem
- o How to select and negotiate dynamically allocated IP addresses
- o How should a host proceed when no bootp servers respond
- o How can a host detect when its environment has changed and 'cached
- hints' (e.g., a locally recorded IP address) are no longer valid
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- The WG agreed *not* to consider:
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- o Dynamic DNS registration (we refer the problem to the DNS WG)
- o Higher level configuration information; e.g., network file servers,
- boot image name
- o Authentication (we refer the problem to the Authentication WG)
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- What's next:
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- o The WG would like to have a design complete by 9/1/90
- o The WG should develop a detailed strawman protocol based on bootp
- by next meeting.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Basch, Richard probe@mit.edu
- Bowers, Karen L. kbowers@nri.reston.va.us
- Broersma, Ron ron@nosc.mil
- Hobby, Russ rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
- Jacoby, Ronald rj@sgi.com
- Johnson, Brad bradcj@osf.org
- Lauck, Tony lauck@dsmail.dec.com
- Mamakos, Louis A. louie@trantor.umd.edu
- McLaughlin, Leo J. ljm@twg.com
- Minshall, Greg minshall@kinetics.kinetics.com
- Petry, Michael petry@trantor.umd.edu
- Rosenstein, Mark mar@athena.mit.edu
- Roubicek, Karen roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net
- Seaver, Tim tas@mcnc.org
- Sklower, Keith L. sklower@okeeffe.berkeley.edu
- Stahl, Mary stahl@nisc.sri.com
- Throop, Dean throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
- VanBokkelen, James jbvb@ftp.com
- Veizades, John veizades@apple.com
- Yuan, Aileen aileen@gateway.mitre.org
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