problem with relay agent implementation

[Joerg Mayer]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:06:16AM -0700, Prashanth Penumarthy wrote:
> 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 ------------

Without having a capture packet this is like looking into a crystal ball:
Guesswork. One of the things that might be wrong is the wrong source port
or a missing giaddr.

 Ciao
      Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer at loplof.de>
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