DHCP Discovery DSCP 4

Patrik Lahti plahti at qnx.com
Mon Jul 12 18:06:58 UTC 2010



On 10-07-12 11:43 AM, a_l_e_xro at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have noticed that DHCP Discovery&  Rq packets are sent with DSCP 4. Why does it
> modify the DSCP field? Is there any way to change that from dhcpd configuration
> without using iptables?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

DSCP 4  (Hex 10 if you look at the entire 8 bits incl ECN) is the old 
ToS low delay value. Currently there is no way to change this in ISC DHCP.

We've suggested that the DSCP should be a command line option - see 
thread "IP ToS/DSCP" July 6th of this year.

Cheers!
/P



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