TFTP Server Address Option for DHCPv4
RFC 5859
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(June 2010; No errata)
Was draft-raj-dhc-tftp-addr-option (individual in int area)
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Author | Richard Johnson | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 5859 (Informational) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Jari Arkko | ||
Send notices to | dhc-chairs@ietf.org |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Johnson Request for Comments: 5859 Cisco Systems, Inc. Category: Informational June 2010 ISSN: 2070-1721 TFTP Server Address Option for DHCPv4 Abstract This memo documents existing usage for the "TFTP Server Address" option. The option number currently in use is 150. This memo documents the current usage of the option in agreement with RFC 3942, which declares that any pre-existing usages of option numbers in the range 128-223 should be documented, and the Dynamic Host Configuration working group will try to officially assign those numbers to those options. The option is defined for DHCPv4 and works only with IPv4 addresses. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5859. Johnson Informational [Page 1] RFC 5859 TFTP Server Address June 2010 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. TFTP Server Address Option Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Johnson Informational [Page 2] RFC 5859 TFTP Server Address June 2010 1. Introduction Voice over IP (VoIP) devices, such as IP phones, have a need to download their configuration from a configuration server on the network. There are two commonly accepted methods to discover this server via DHCP; the "sname" field in the DHCP header [RFC2131] and the "TFTP Server Name" option (66) [RFC2132]. Both of these sources of information, however, contain the TFTP server's hostname. That hostname must then be translated to an IP address. The usual method to accomplish this would be DNS [RFC1034]. This means the firmware in a VoIP device (with possibly limited flash, memory, and/or processing resources) would need to implement the DNS protocol in order to perform this translation. This would also introduce an additional unnecessary point of failure whereby the device is dependent on the DNS server infrastructure in order to boot up and communicate with its call agent. In order to eliminate DNS as a point of failure and to keep the firmware in such a VoIP device to a minimum, the "VoIP Configuration Server Address" option (150) was introduced. This option allows theShow full document text