invalid DISCOVER packet - update

[David W. Hankins]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:17:32AM -0500, Duane Cox wrote:
> Would you agree to that?  That's not how I read the RFC...

Well, no, I read the RFC the same way, so I wouldn't agree
with your relay vendor.

The RFC discusses only the client<->server model...not the
client<->relay<->server model (at least, not explicitly).

Because the minimum IP MTU is 576, I think a relay is justified
in not accepting larger packets...if their MTU is really 576.

I would say that a relay needs to support DHCP packets up to
their MTU size.

But I also would say it is terribly unfair of the Cisco device
to send a 604 byte packet when the trailing bytes are all zero.

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