Technical Summary
A node may have support for communications using IPv4 and/or IPv6
protocols. Such a node may wish to obtain IPv4 and/or IPv6
configuration settings via the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP). The original version of DHCP [1] designed for IPv4 has now
been complemented by a new DHCPv6 [4] for IPv6. This document
describes issues identified with dual IP version DHCP interactions,
the most important aspect of which is how to handle potential
problems in clients processing configuration information received
from both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 servers. The document makes a
recommendation on the general strategy on how best to handle such
issues, and identifies future work to be undertaken.
Working Group Summary
This document was produced by the DHC WG. The WG has consensus
to publish this document as an Informational RFC.
Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed for the IESG by Margaret Wasserman.