Re: DHCP Problem
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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