Re: Allocating addresses across routers

Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov> Wed, 04 September 1996 20:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: Allocating addresses across routers
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Carolyn,

You don't say what kind of routers you have, but the brand I have the
most of can receive a BOOTP or DHCP broadcast and forward it *as a
unicast packet* to the server(s).  This yields no increase of
broadcasts compared to the server-per-subnet case.

				Matt Crawford