Re: FW: Question regarding address specs for IPv4-only protocolM IBs

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> Woundy, Richard writes:

Richard> It *is* possible for a DHCPv4 server to use "non-globally
Richard> scoped addresses".  At least two commercially-available
Richard> DHCPv4 servers support the allocation of IP addresses on a
Richard> per-VPN basis.

[...]

Richard> But to make things more complicated, I'm not sure that the
Richard> RFC 3291 concept of "zones" is going to work here. RFC 3291
Richard> uses a four byte "zone index" for IPv4 and IPv6
Richard> addresses. The DHCP VPN drafts either use a "NVT ASCII VPN
Richard> Identifier" or a "RFC 2685 VPN ID". RFC 2685 defines a seven
Richard> byte VPN identifier, consisting of a three byte OUI and a
Richard> four byte VPN identifier unique within the context of the
Richard> OUI.

Not sure what the answer to this is. However, using an InetAddressType
InetAddress pair might make it easier to handle this later...

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>