Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
> > About the only time you'd strictly *need* dynamic configuration in an
> > OOB is when directly connecting it to a commodity Internet link. If
> > you're willing to give your poorly secured and rarely updated OOB a
> > public IP address, you're a braver man than I am. If you are that
> > "brave" then you'll need a more robust set of dynamic configuration
> > tools than just the ones you've listed and you'll also need a dynamic
> > dns client or some other mechanism for the the OOB to let you know
> > what addresses it ended up on.
>
> it's possible that he's thinking of a world where your dhcp is not
> 'dynamic' but a management system which can keep all the other bits of
> information updated (and easily updatable!) for the remote nodes:
>   ip address
>   def-gw
>   dns servers
>
> for instance.

Sure, but in that scenario you don't *need* a dhcp system, it's merely
a "nice to have." Hence a P2 not a P1.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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