ISC Dhcpd 4.2.3-P2 does not respond to unicast

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Mon May 12 07:45:30 UTC 2014


> I have ISC DHCP 4.2.3-P2 server. I am seeing that the server is not
> responding to unicast Discover.

Are you using a relay agent or not?

I would the server to respond to unicast Discover via a relay agent.
I would not necessarily expect the server to respond to a unicast 
Discover which is *not* sent via a relay agent. After all, RFC 2131
is quite clear in stating (section 3.1):

  1. The client broadcasts a DHCPDISCOVER message on its local
     physical subnet.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no


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