Sujet : Re: I never thought of this scenario
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 19. Apr 2024, 10:47:44
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On 18/04/2024 23:16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:15:32 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:
.. when a DHCP client /renews/ it's lease,
it has a valid IP address and can use that to talk to the DHCP server on
a remote subnet using standard DHCP protocol.
Why would it need to? The DHCP server is on the same subnet, otherwise the
client could not have got that address in the first place.
Sigh. Simply not true.
DHCP servers can serve multiple local subnets
The key is that the routers between each subnet and the DHCP machine need to be told to route DHCP *in some way*.
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