Query about DHCP relay agents

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Jan 11 15:04:23 UTC 2011


Debanjan Biswas (debiswas) wrote:

>                 Does the DHCP relay agent passes the private options 
>automatically between the DHCP client & servers? Or do we need to 
>configure the DHCP relay agent to pass these values?

It should be transparent to the options requested/supplied. By 
default, all the relay agent should do is fill in the GIAddr in the 
header. If configured, it may add an option 82 (Circuit ID) to the 
options space.

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