Dynamic Host Configuration (DHC)

Charter 

Chair(s)

      Ralph Droms:  droms@bucknell.edu

Mailing Lists

      General Discussion:  host-conf@sol.bucknell.edu
      To Subscribe:        host-conf-request@sol.bucknell.edu
      Archive:             sol.bucknell.edu:~/dhcwg

Description of Working Group

     The purpose of this working group is to investigate network
     configuration and reconfiguration management, and determine
     those configuration functions that can be automated, such as
     Internet address assignment, gateway discovery and resource
     location, and those which cannot be automated (i.e., those that
     must be managed by network administrators).

Goals and Milestones

Done     Write a BOOTP extensions document.

Done     Identify (in the spirit of the Gateway Requirements and Host
         Requirements RFCs) the information required for hosts and
         gateways to:  exchange packets with other hosts, obtain packet
         routing information, access the Domain Name System, and access
         other local and remote services.

Done     Summarize those mechanisms already in place for managing the
         information identified by objective 1.

Done     Suggest new mechanisms to manage the information identified by
         objective 1.

Done     Having established what information and mechanisms are required
         for host operation, examine specific scenarios of dynamic host
         configuration and reconfiguration, and show how those scenarios
         can be resolved using existing or proposed management
         mechanisms.


Request For Comments

RFC 1531   ``Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol''

RFC 1532   ``Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol''

RFC 1533   ``DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions''

RFC 1534   ``Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP''

RFC 1541   ``Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol''

RFC 1542   ``Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol''