problem with relay agent implementation

[Prashanth Penumarthy]

Hello,
I am trying to implement a DHCP relay agent - not full blown at this time
but more of a functional test tool. Am forwarding the discover packets to
the server but for some reason the server is not reading the magic cookie,
dhcp message type option (discover) and  treating the packet as sent by a
bootp client (boot request) and not as a dhcp discover packet. I compared
the packet captures with some valid dhcp discover packet captures (both
through relay agent and without) and the way I am sending the magic cookie
and the dhcp discover options is similar to the other captures. Should I set
any parameters in the dhcpd.conf file to make the server interpret the
cookie and dhcp options correctly? Also what are the mandatory dhcp options
for a discover packet? any pointers would be helpful ------------


thanks,

prashanth