DHCP Broadcast behavior

King, Michael MKing at bridgew.edu
Sat Apr 8 03:45:32 UTC 2006


I tried finding something to answer this in the archives, but the only
hit I got was back from 2001, so I don't know if it's still standard
behavior.

I have a wireless Bridging AP, with far end and near end endpoints.

In the Design guide is the following statement.  So does ISC DHCP
respond broadcast, or unicast?

However, there is an issue with some
DHCP servers that use a broadcast DHCP response. The RAPs in the network
accept a broadcast
response but do not forward to any MAPs that have made a request. By
default, a Windows DHCP server
sends its response by an IP broadcast (255.255.255.255). However, it can
be configured to send DHCP
responses via unicast


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