Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge
Hi.
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:59:39 +0100
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 06/01/2017 à 13:15, Reco a écrit :
> >>
> >> DHCP is L4, IP is L3 and openvswitch cares about L2
> >> mostly.
> >
> > Self-correction. DHCP is L7.
>
> Why ? DHCP deals with IP configuration, so I'd rather classify it as
> part of layer 3, with IP and ICMP. AFAIK, it does not provide any
> service to any application but to the IP layer itself, just like ICMP.
[1] lists is as an application level protocol. My original thought was
UDP, hence L4.
Furthermore, there are lots of dhcp options (ntp-server,
local-proxy-config to name a few that are actually used) that deal with
client's configuration that's not related to IP configuration directly.
Reco
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCP
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