On-going work on DHCP project : RFC4361 support

[Thomas PEGEOT]

Hi,

 

Actually, the changes I brought to the DHCP source code don’t force DHCPv4
clients to use DUID based client-identifiers in order to keep backward
compatibility. Forcing every user to migrate to this new kind of
client-identifiers would be a mess. That’s why I’ve chosen to enable the use
of a DUID based client-identifier only if the required argument is passed to
the dhclient executable. 

 

Regarding the DHCID, I intended to add a new compilation option (I’ve
already started to implement it) that would enable the support of real DHCID
records. This option would be by default disabled: in this case, the old TXT
records would be used. 

 

Guys, what do you think about this? 

 

Thomas.

 

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[mailto:dhcp-workers-bounces+thomas.pegeot=sogeti.com at lists.isc.org] De la
part de Rene Garcia
Envoyé : lundi 15 mars 2010 16:26
À : dhcp-workers at lists.isc.org
Objet : Re: On-going work on DHCP project : RFC4361 support

 

Hi,

Here is some additional information on Thomas'work : the stored  DHCID in
DNS servers will change and therefore upgrading to this new behaviour will
need a lot of work to migrate old emulated TXT DHCID to new ones. That's why
I aked him to add support for real DHCID RRs in DNS as ISC BIND 9.5+ seems
to handle them.

Including Thomas'code change into the CVS tree is a major change and creates
an incompatibility with existing DNS records. How can we handle this ? Maybe
using an optional compilation using a new --enable-feature option in
configure script ?

Therefore I hope his work will be usefull for the DHCP project.

Regards,
René GARCIA

Quoting Thomas PEGEOT <thomas.pegeot at sogeti.com>:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> As part of my final year project (French equivalent of a Master degree in
> computing science), I’m working on an ipv4 to ipv6 migration research
> project.
>
>
>
> First, I was asked to work on ISC DHCP in order to make dual stack clients
> be able to identity correctly for DDNS updates. This consists in solving
the
> problem described in the “Dual IPv4/IPv6 Client Considerations” part of
the
> RFC 4703 and therefore implementing the RFC 4361. It aims at allowing
DHCPv4
> clients to be identified by an IAID and a DUID, and in that way having
> DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 clients compute the same DHCID from a common DUID.
>
>
>
> The modifications I wrote are currently reviewed by my tutor (René Garcia,
> who already reported bugs here). Afterwards, I’m going to send these
patches
> to this mailing list in hopes of having them merged with the CVS code.
>
>
>
> As the DHCID support is not implemented yet in ISC DHCP, I’m going now to
> study this problem and try to write down patches in order to solve this. I
> will keep you informed about this.
>
>
>
> I hope that you will be interested in my work.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Thomas PEGEOT
>
>

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