Re: DHCP Problem

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: DHCP Problem
Date	2023-12-04 07:10 +0100
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 05:55:50 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> Wait a sec: before the clients get an answer from the DHCP server,
> they don't have any route (at least not for the network in question),
> so it doesn't make sense poking at them with ip route and things.
> They send their request to the local network's segment broadcast
> address.

As I understand things, that's true of the first request a client
makes, say, at boot. After that, the client knows which machine it got
its last lease from and can query directly.

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  Re: DHCP Problem Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-03 21:00 +0100
    Re: DHCP Problem Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-03 22:30 +0100
  Re: DHCP Problem Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2023-12-03 22:10 +0100
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      Re: DHCP Problem, but where jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-12-03 22:40 +0100
        Re: DHCP Problem, but where Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-12-04 04:40 +0100
          Re: DHCP Problem, but where Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-04 04:50 +0100
      Re: DHCP Problem, but where Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-03 22:40 +0100
  goose DHCP clients to new address   Was: DHCP Problem Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2023-12-03 22:20 +0100
    Re: goose DHCP clients to new address   Was: DHCP Problem Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-03 23:00 +0100
      Re: goose DHCP clients to new address Was: DHCP Problem Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-12-03 23:20 +0100
        Re: goose DHCP clients to new address Was: DHCP Problem Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-04 00:00 +0100
  Re: DHCP Problem Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-04 04:50 +0100
  Re: DHCP Problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-04 06:00 +0100
    Re: DHCP Problem Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-04 07:10 +0100

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