ISC Dhcpd 4.2.3-P2 does not respond to unicast
Sten Carlsen
stenc at s-carlsen.dk
Mon May 12 07:49:42 UTC 2014
I was bitten by a simple thing recently: my server did not have a route
to the network where the client was residing and therefore could not
send the reply.
On 12/05/14 09.45, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> I have ISC DHCP 4.2.3-P2 server. I am seeing that the server is not
>> responding to unicast Discover.
> Are you using a relay agent or not?
>
> I would the server to respond to unicast Discover via a relay agent.
> I would not necessarily expect the server to respond to a unicast
> Discover which is *not* sent via a relay agent. After all, RFC 2131
> is quite clear in stating (section 3.1):
>
> 1. The client broadcasts a DHCPDISCOVER message on its local
> physical subnet.
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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Best regards
Sten Carlsen
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"MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"
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