My understanding is what your seeing is correct. Your client boots up and is braindead, does a bootp request. Router, with ip-helper address configured, forwards. (routes) bootp request to server with it's own address as the source. Bootp server gets request and routes brains back to router which hands it over to soon to be smarter client.
The cat operates at layer 2 in which casse the helper address is irrelevant. Dave NetEng wrote: > > I have a Cat5505 with RSM. I have multiple vlans setup and use the RSM for > the routing. I have a bootp server on one vlan that supports all the clients > on all the vlans. It recently quit working. Upon sniffing the segment where > the bootp server is, it shows the requests coming from vlan ip address (ie > 192.168.4.1) instead of the actual client (ie 192.168.4.10)(it used to show > up as the actual client.) My client has stated nothing in the config has > changed, and from what I can see everything looks good. Is there a command > similiar to ip helper-address I can use in CatOS? -- David Madland Sr. Network Engineer CCIE# 2016 Qwest Communications Int. Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 612-664-3367 "Emotion should reflect reason not guide it" Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=40082&t=40069 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
