Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: DHCP over IKE vs Configuration Payload

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@east.sun.com>]

> > > > Lately, I've been wondering if we can't just add an optional
> > > > DHCP CP payload type.  Not sure if that would make everybody
> > > > happy or make everybody mad.
> > > That is what Darren Dukes and I proposed in the doc we wrote and
> > > presented in SF. Send a DHCP server addr in CP along w/ IP and
> > > DNS/WINS (if needed) and do the rest of the DHCP extensions via
> > > INFORM in protected by CHILD-SA.
> > no, that's not the same thing.
> care to clarify?

A "dhcp cp payload type" would carry DHCP inside CP inside IKE, not
send a referral to a DHCP server.

						- Bill