DHCP unicast

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 30 15:32:30 UTC 2018


On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Alexander Mukhin
<alexander.i.mukhin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Denys,
>
> I have a doubt on your commit a6a3ad327360669e0c12552f680382e3b9713489,
> when you introduced a requirement that the DHCP Server ID must be
> directly reachable.
>
> Please consider a very common case when a DHCP relay is used. Here, the
> Server ID will never be a direcly connected address. Your commit
> effectively breaks any possibility of unicast communications with such a
> server.

Well, I see that serverid of 1.1.1.1 is handed out to my machine right now.
It is clearly bogus. So this does happen in real world.


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