DHCPINFORM via a relay agent

[David W. Hankins]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:24:19PM +0900, Kan Sasaki wrote:
> Is it wrong to send the DHCPACK reply to ciaddr instead of giaddr
> whether the DHCPINFORM has giaddr?

No, responding directly to ciaddr even when giaddr is set is correct
("SHOULD") behaviour.

ISC DHCP has errantly been written to behave incorrectly in order
to 'better' handle clients that do supply zero ciaddr's.

We'll fix this in a future release.  I don't know if it will appear
in 3.0.5.

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