Re: Relay agent

Richard Letts <R.J.Letts@salford.ac.uk> Sat, 18 May 1996 09:45 UTC

Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 05:43:11 -0400
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Packet drivers have no knowledgeof IP; what TCPIP stack are you using?

boris@hal2000.law.columbia.edu wrote....
> 
> 
> Has anyone experienced the following problem with CMU dhcp server and dos
> Packet Driver (NE2000) :
> 
> I use a bootp relay agent for forwarding bootp requests to the dhcp server
> which is on another subnet. The relay agent is not on the router but a host
> behind the router (using Novell's bootpforwarding).
> The problem is that PCs using Packet Driver get the gateway IP wrong - instead
> of the IP of the router which dhcp server is supposed to provide (gw tag) they
> get IP of the relay agent
> Other clients get it correct.
> 
> Any solution for that?
> 
> ==================================
> Boris Niyazov
> IT Department
> Columbia Law School 
> 

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