[j-nsp] BOOTP helper on MX vrf

[Sebastian Wiesinger]

* Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> [2013-06-14 09:51]:
> Another problem with DHCP-relay is that, AFAIK, it causes _all_ dhcp
> packets in every interface to be punted. So some transit DHCP packet
> jetting through your router in unrelated interface gets punted.
> I find this most unsatisfactory, but of course we're 'only one who has
> complained about this'. 

Hi,

I thought that was with bootp, not with dhcp-relay?


> I wonder if we need some community site to aggregate and vote-up feature
> requests and fixes, maybe something simple like userecho. Since there are
> tons of features I know many people want, but no one (not even JNPR) has
> clue what these are.

Yes that would be helpful.

> It's baffling vendors (I'm not pointing at JNPR, every one does this) fail
> to capitalize on the valuable information customers give them about things
> they need to change in their gear to sell more.
> How I'd handle this is, if TAC issue looks like feature request, ticket is
> moved to another BU handling features. Then they verify that both custoemr
> and Juniper understand what is requested, then punch in the data in a
> formal way, this way everything would be logged and in some time, you'd
> have database where you can check what features are most requested.
> 
> Now vendors are just telling customers to file PERS/ER which is not even
> formal process, but somehow in the air, you email your account team, which
> may or may not do something about it, but there is formal metadata or
> format for the request so the data is obviously of very low value and very
> low quality. And most customers don't even bother doing it at that point,
> just give up, so the data is simply lost.
> How can anyone afford to lose this data is beyond me.

+1

Regards

Sebastian

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