DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery
RFC 5460

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Network Working Group                                           M. Stapp
Request for Comments: 5460                           Cisco Systems, Inc.
Category: Standards Track                                  February 2009

                         DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery

Status of This Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

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Abstract

   The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) has been
   extended with a Leasequery capability that allows a client to request
   information about DHCPv6 bindings.  That mechanism is limited to
   queries for individual bindings.  In some situations individual
   binding queries may not be efficient, or even possible.  This
   document expands on the Leasequery protocol, adding new query types
   and allowing for bulk transfer of DHCPv6 binding data via TCP.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Protocol Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   4.  Interaction between UDP Leasequery and Bulk Leasequery . . . .  5
   5.  Message and Option Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     5.1.  Message Framing for TCP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     5.2.  Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       5.2.1.  LEASEQUERY-DATA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       5.2.2.  LEASEQUERY-DONE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     5.3.  Query Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       5.3.1.  QUERY_BY_RELAY_ID  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       5.3.2.  QUERY_BY_LINK_ADDRESS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       5.3.3.  QUERY_BY_REMOTE_ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     5.4.  Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       5.4.1.  Relay-ID Option  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     5.5.  Status Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     5.6.  Connection and Transmission Parameters . . . . . . . . . .  9
   6.  Requestor Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     6.1.  Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     6.2.  Forming Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     6.3.  Processing Replies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       6.3.1.  Reply Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     6.4.  Querying Multiple Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     6.5.  Multiple Queries to a Single Server  . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       6.5.1.  Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     6.6.  Closing Connections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   7.  Server Behavior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     7.1.  Accepting Connections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     7.2.  Forming Replies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     7.3.  Multiple or Parallel Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     7.4.  Closing Connections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   9.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   10. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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1.  Introduction

   The DHCPv6 [RFC3315] protocol specifies a mechanism for the
   assignment of IPv6 address and configuration information to IPv6
   nodes.  IPv6 Prefix Delegation (PD) for DHCPv6 [RFC3633] specifies a
   mechanism for DHCPv6 delegation of IPv6 prefixes and related data.
   DHCPv6 servers maintain authoritative information including binding