DHCPLEASEACTIVE messages sent to UDP port 67?

[David W. Hankins]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:40:31PM -0400, Bruce Keats wrote:
> I was just looking at some of the DHCPLEASEACTIVE messages and I noticed
> thay are being sent to UDP port 67.  Should the BOOTP reply messages (which
> the DHCPLEASEACTIVE message) be sent by the DHCP server to UDP port 68
> (BOOTP client port) as per RFC951?
> Is have not seen check the DHCPLEASEUNASSIGNED or DHCPLEASEUNKNOWN messages.

As giaddr is set, and RFC4388 (leasequery) refers back to RFC2131
giaddr handling, it's assumed that the consumer is listening on
port 67.

RFC4388 actually doesn't mention port numbers.  It just provides that
one backreference to rfc2131, and consistently requires that giaddr
be nonzero.

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