dhcpcd-discuss

Thanks Roy!!

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019, 18:36 Roy Marples, <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Shweta
>
> On 08/07/2019 07:21, Shweta Kalyani wrote:
> > Thanks Roy.
> > Could you please confirm if dhcpcd-7.0.0 supports RFC 8168?
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8168
>
> dhcpcd-7 does have some support for it.
> Most of the SHOULD notes dhcpcd doesn't support, for example dhcpcd
> treats the lease a whole and won't re-request IA_PD if the length is
> unnaceptable.
>
> dhcpcd treats the length hint as just a hint - it will always try and
> use the prefix returned IF it can fit it in the prefix length you want
> to apply.
>
> For example, you could request a /48, get a /56 and apply a /64.
> It all works.
> But if you request a /48 and get a /72 it won't work because it's too
> big to fit into the /64 you need.
>
> Most of the RFC seems to be for the server side, I think dhcpcd handles
> everything else fine, other than the first noted deviation.
> But I'm not too concerened because it's SHOULD and not MUST.
>
> Roy
>