Re: Minimum length of DHCP packet ?

Christopher Davis <chr+@andrew.cmu.edu> Fri, 08 March 1996 17:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: Minimum length of DHCP packet ?
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Excerpts from netdev.dhcp-v4: 8-Mar-96 Re: Minimum length of DHCP .. by
Mike S. B. Software@east 
> Sorry, I disagree. If you send out packets less than 300bytes,
> and the relay agent dumps them on the floor, you don't have BOOTP/DHCP 
> services, period. The bootp spec is very specific about the packet size.

I haven't checked with 1.1, but OpenTransport 1.0.8 sends out 244 byte
DISCOVER messages.


Chris Davis
Network Development
Carnegie Mellon University