relay issue

Aaron Porter atporter at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 22:47:09 UTC 2008


On 1/16/08, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> wrote:
> > Jan 16 13:37:08 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:48:7e:2a:ec via eth0:
>
> This indicates that the DISCOVER is being received directly on eth0, rather
> than via a relay.  So, it is assumed that the request is on whatever
> shared-network contains the DHCP server's address on that interface.
>
> Is the "remote network" really a separate physical network, with a router
> between it and your DHCP server?

Yep. Using the layer3 features on Force10 switches.


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