You are right. The packets are:
Discover
Offer
Response
ACK
The way to remember it is DORA.
It's not SMB, though. Not sure why you threw that in.
Priscilla
At 04:18 PM 3/16/01, you wrote:
>Not trying to nit pick but the response packet ( the fourth packet in a new
>DHCP lease negotiation) is an SMB response packet type of "ACK" (DHCP can
>only respond with an ACK or a NACK) thus it most definitely uses "ACKS and
>all that"
>
>-----Original Message-----
>3. DHCP is carried by UDP protocol, so it does not use "ACKs and all that
>jazz". The client issues a broadcast message and receives the reply packet
>from the DHCP server containing IP address, default gateway address, DNS
>server address(es) from the DHCP server.
>
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