Re: Best way to retrieve DHCP vendor sp -Reply

Somenath Bandyopadhyay <sbandyo@novell.com> Tue, 24 December 1996 16:20 UTC

Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 11:18:29 -0500
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Subject: Re: Best way to retrieve DHCP vendor sp -Reply

DHCP spec is not very clear about the usage of
DHCPINFORM in this respect. DHCP spec says client should
unicast DHCPINFORM if it already has the IP address of the
DHCP server, it can broadcast if it does not have the IP
address of the DHCP server.

Looks to me , client can broadcast DHCPINFORM even if it
has the IP address of the DHCP server. But the spec is not
clear how all DHCP servers receiving that broadcast  respond
to this?

Will these DHCP servers check for "client identifier" and not
respond to the "request parameter list"? Is this left for
implementation?

           thanks,   som.

1. The client gets the ip addres through the normal procedure
from one =
of the DHCP servers.
     2. Then use DHCPINFORM message to get the required
vender-specific =
information from another server.

One obevius   problem I see is the client should somehow
know the server's =
=
address from which it is to get vender-specific information. =

Re: Best way to retrieve DHCP vendor sp -Reply Somenath Bandyopadhyay