dhcp relay - stateless

[foomail123]

Looking at source code, 
relay is using circuit ID/interface ID is used as
agent options. Is this right ?


--- Michael Loftis <mloftis at wgops.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --On July 19, 2006 3:40:41 PM -0700 foomail123
> <foomail123 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Thank you for last response.
> >
> > Since dhcp relay is stateless, if there are
> multiple
> > interfaces, how does relay know which interface to
> > foward DHCP offer received from server ?
> >
> > How does relay work in vlan case (multiple
> interfaces
> > in a vlan) ?
> >
> > Also, being stateless if same host is connected to
> > multiple interfaces and/or vlans, how does relay
> > process DHCP offer packet received from server ?
> 
> All of the information it needs is contained in the
> request and response 
> packets.  The request contains everything it needs
> to pass to the dhcp 
> server, the dhcp server responds with everything the
> dhcp relay needs to 
> connect the response to the correct client. 
> Therefore, it needs no state.
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
> 


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