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Re: Minimum length of DHCP packet ?

John Veizades <veizades@tgv.com> Fri, 08 March 1996 18:12 UTC

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From: John Veizades <veizades@tgv.com>
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Subject: Re: Minimum length of DHCP packet ?
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> I feel it is better if server doesn't discard packets with lesser size 
than
> 300 bytes. This is just my opinion.
> 

The issue with this is that there are bootp relays out there that will 
discard packets of less than 300 bytes, these relays know nothing of DHCP 
they think that all these packets are bootp packets.  A compliant 
implementation will always send packets greater than 300 bytes or do what 
Apple's OT does.

John Veizades...
TGV Inc.

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