Le 06/01/2017 à 13:15, Reco a écrit :
DHCP is L4, IP is L3 and openvswitch cares about L2 mostly.Self-correction. DHCP is L7.
Why ? DHCP deals with IP configuration, so I'd rather classify it as part of layer 3, with IP and ICMP. AFAIK, it does not provide any service to any application but to the IP layer itself, just like ICMP.