[kea-dev] Options and Relay Agent information

Marcin Siodelski marcin at isc.org
Thu Nov 12 13:33:59 UTC 2015


On 12.11.2015 14:29, Francis Dupont wrote:
> Vadim Fedorenko writes:
> > It seems to me that SHOULD in RFC is for whole Option, not for the
> position.
> > And it could be read as SHOULD copy, and if it copies, that in the
> last posit
> > ion.
>
> => the RFC text is:
>
>     Servers SHOULD copy the Relay Agent Information
>     option as the last DHCP option in the response.
>
> so IMHO the SHOULD is about the copy and the position.
>
> > I'll open ticket soon
>
> => thanks
>
> Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>
>

I strikes me that SHOULD doesn't warrant that server does it and that it
is feasible to ignore everything past this option. But, I think that
since the relays do what they do, we should make sure we put it at the end.

Marcin


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