Re: [OT] dhcpd and always-broadcast

2012-10-11 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 10/11/2012 07:51 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis pan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I have an OT question about the always-broadcast option of the dhcpd server. Based on the Wikipedia article, all DHCP messages to the client are sent to the

Re: [OT] dhcpd and always-broadcast

2012-10-11 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis pan...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/11/2012 07:51 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis pan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I have an OT question about the always-broadcast option of the dhcpd server.

[OT] dhcpd and always-broadcast

2012-10-10 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hey, I have an OT question about the always-broadcast option of the dhcpd server. Based on the Wikipedia article, all DHCP messages to the client are sent to the broadcast address. This makes sense, since the UDP protocol used by DHCP runs on top of the IP protocol, and the client does not have

Re: [OT] dhcpd and always-broadcast

2012-10-10 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis pan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I have an OT question about the always-broadcast option of the dhcpd server. Based on the Wikipedia article, all DHCP messages to the client are sent to the broadcast address. This makes sense, since the UDP