Re: Questions about server's use of giaddr

[Ralph Droms <[e-mail]>]

At 11:46 AM 2/5/96, Shawn Mamros wrote:
>"A relay agent MUST NOT use yiaddr to determine the interface on
>which to relay a message from a DHCP or BOOTP server to a client; it MUST
>use giaddr solely instead.  yiaddr MUST only be used as the destination
>IP address when relaying a message from a server to a client (when the
>broadcast bit is not set).  A relay agent MUST NOT send server responses
>through a router, even if yiaddr and giaddr appear to be on different
>logical networks, because the server could have knowledge about the
>topology of the network that is unknown to the relay agent (e.g., the
>logical networks indicated by yiaddr and giaddr may both reside on the
>same physical network)."

Is this implementable, in practice?

- Ralph