On 25 November 2015 at 06:23, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > You might think that would be obvious, but exactly zero (0) commercial > > available CPEs has implemented it like that. > > > > THAT means that if you expect the community to do it like this, you do in > > fact need to write it in a RFC. > > Or you could write it as you think it is needed. > > The homenet working group just published a RFC with a different solution. The size hint is garbage today because every client will put garbage in it and most servers will ignore it (including isc-dhcp IIRC). And likely it will stay that way forever. The homenet solution is different, but it reduces the need for a size hint.
Regards, Baldur