Relay agents, NAT, and offers to giaddr

Alan DeKok adekok at infoblox.com
Thu Sep 14 23:40:41 UTC 2006


Chris De Young wrote:

> ----------    ---------------   -------     ----------------------
> | Client |----| Relay-agent |---| NAT |-----| Public DHCP server |
> ----------    | 10.1.1.1    |   |     |     |  128.196.128.x     |
>               ---------------   -------     ----------------------
> 
> The relay agent does NOT do the routing for this segment (it's a
> wireless controller), that's done at the NAT box.

   Relay agents should run on routers.  If the NAT box is a router, it 
should run the relay agent.  At that point, it may work.

   Alan DeKok.


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