Some follow the RFC's to the dot and some don't. The ones that do will
look at the SRC instead of the embedded. So the IP gets assigned to
the "wrong" MAC.

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VsTT> Yes the sender MAC address is replaced with the bridges MAC, but it
VsTT> depends where the DHCP server is looking at the MAC address, 

VsTT> Not all DHCP work the same. 

VsTT> Vasu 
 

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VsTT> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Haynes
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VsTT> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Who's Responsible?

VsTT> The senders MAC is replaced with the bridges MAC but the DHCP requesting
VsTT> MAC
VsTT> in the Packet is the PCs. Some DHCP servers look at the wrong address.

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VsTT> If by "packet inspecting", you mean that the DHCP server is looking
VsTT> inside
VsTT> the 
VsTT> packets, I don't think that's what is happening.  We're doing this same
VsTT> thing 
VsTT> (leasing IPs based on the customer PC's MAC address) using the standard
VsTT> ISC 
VsTT> dhcpd.  I think the Airbridges forward DHCP requests with the PC's MAC 
VsTT> address, rather than their own.  Not that it matters, but WET11s do this
VsTT> as 
VsTT> well.

VsTT> Craig


VsTT> Quoting The Wirefree Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>> Hmmm...must be a packet inspecting DHCP server.  Didn't know they
>> existed.  Cool.
>> 
>> Sully
>> 
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