Sujet : Re: I never thought of this scenario
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 17. Apr 2024, 04:17:59
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 02:08:09 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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I went through the details of RFC2131 in another posting. Go read it
(the RFC and my posting).
And, yet, you seem to have missed this statement from the RFC:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2131 - page 6:
DHCP should not require a server on each subnet. To allow for
scale and economy, DHCP must work across routers or through the
intervention of BOOTP relay agents.
No, I didn’t miss it at all. It’s listed under “design goals”, not
actually under how the spec works.
By definition such a protocol cannot work across routers, because clients
don’t know what routers are available until a DHCP server tells them.
Is there a section that describes which of the “design goals” were
actually met?