Re: I never thought of this scenario

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Marc Haber wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:18:57 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
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You're reasoning is flawed.

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I’m what reasoning is flawed??
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Does not parse.

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Biting on someone else's typos is a sure sign of running out of
factual arguments.
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I am sure that, as a native speaker, you're able to understand what I
wanted to say while having my fingers type something different.
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Sorry Lawrence but I have to go with Marc on this one. Your position is
starting to look very weak here.

He's been lost from the beginning.  DHCP the protocol is not itself
routable, because it is not a network layer protocol.  DHCP messages
are carried in UDP packets, themselves carried in IP packets, and
whether a DHCP message is routable or not depends wholly on the
routability of the IP packet it resides within.  If that IP packet uses
a routable address, then the DHCP message is routable.  If it uses a
non-routable address (such as the network link broadcast address), the
then IP packet is not routable.

But routability depends only upon the address(s) used in the IP packet,
not whether the UDP datagram is carrying a DHCP message.

Lawrence has appeared to believe during this entire long thread that
the only use of DHCP is for initial IP setup (and it is possible this
is the only use he has ever seen and he may not know better, but if
true that indicates he has not understood the RFC he claims to have
read and relies on as his 'source').

But there is a whole other portion of DHCP that is used *after* the
initial IP address setup where the messages are fully routable because
the client now has an actual assigned IP address.  But for some reason
Lawrence seems unaware of, or unwilling to understand, that there is
that part of the DHCP protocol that is carried in routable UDP/IP
packets.