Relay agents, NAT, and offers to giaddr

Michael Richardson mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
Sat Sep 16 00:37:38 UTC 2006


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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan DeKok <adekok at infoblox.com> writes:
    Alan>    Maybe I'm crazy, but my tests with ISC & a hacked-up test
    Alan> client indicate that so long as giaddr is set, that's where
    Alan> the reply goes. I've successfully had it renew leases for IP
    Alan> address X that were unicast from IP Y (i.e. giaddr).

  It seems that as long as giaddr is set correctly, everything should
work.  I see some complexity with getting giaddr set correctly on
multihomed machines, and I realize that I've always had relay machines
where all interfaces were routable from the point of view of the DHCP
server.

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