DHCP Options for the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
RFC 7291
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(July 2014; No errata)
Was draft-ietf-pcp-dhcp (pcp WG)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Replaces | draft-bpw-pcp-dhcp | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | Dave Thaler | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2014-03-04) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7291 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| Responsible AD | Ted Lemon | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Boucadair
Request for Comments: 7291 France Telecom
Category: Standards Track R. Penno
ISSN: 2070-1721 D. Wing
Cisco
July 2014
DHCP Options for the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Abstract
This document specifies DHCP (IPv4 and IPv6) options to configure
hosts with Port Control Protocol (PCP) server IP addresses. The use
of DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 depends on the PCP deployment scenarios. The set
of deployment scenarios to which DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 can be applied is
outside the scope of this document.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
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). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in 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/rfc7291.
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RFC 7291 PCP DHCP Options July 2014
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. DHCPv6 PCP Server Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. DHCPv6 Client Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. DHCPv4 PCP Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2. DHCPv4 Client Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. DHCP Server Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Dual-Stack Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. Hosts with Multiple Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
9.1. DHCPv6 Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
9.2. DHCPv4 Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1. Introduction
This document defines DHCPv4 [RFC2131] and DHCPv6 [RFC3315] options
that can be used to configure hosts with PCP server [RFC6887] IP
addresses.
This specification assumes a PCP server is reachable with one or
multiple IP addresses. As such, a list of IP addresses can be
returned in the DHCP PCP server option.
This specification allows returning one or multiple lists of PCP
server IP addresses. This is used as a hint to guide the PCP client
when determining whether to send PCP requests to one or multiple PCP
servers. Concretely, the PCP client needs an indication to decide
whether entries need to be instantiated in all PCP servers (e.g.,
multi-homing, multiple PCP-controlled devices providing distinct
services, etc.) or use one IP address from the list (e.g., redundancy
group scenario, proxy-based model, etc.). Refer to [PCP-DEPLOYMENT]
for a discussion on PCP deployment scenarios.
For guidelines on how a PCP client can use multiple IP addresses and
multiple PCP servers, see [PCP-SERVER].
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