[Patch] for dhclient, force broadcast flag

[François-Xavier Le Bail]

--- On Fri, 6/25/10, Patrik Lahti <plahti at qnx.com> wrote:
> From: Patrik Lahti <plahti at qnx.com>
> Subject: Re: [Patch] for dhclient, force broadcast flag
> To: dhcp-users at lists.isc.org
> Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 10:14 AM
> 
> On 10-06-22 01:10 PM, François-Xavier Le Bail wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Force broadcast flag for DHCPv4 client is useful for
> some use case.
> 
> What are the use cases? Is this for RFC 2855 (IEEE1394) and
> RFC 4390 
> (Infiniband)?

Hello,

For security reasons some network equipments don't allow DHCP unicast before DHCP ACK.

Best Regards,
Francois-Xavier