This was a problem with old kernels (2.1 and earlier), and should not a
affect you. See
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/dhcpv3-README.html#linux4

-Richard


On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 14:56, Troy Aden wrote:
>       I did some digging and came up with this little nugget that has me
> more confused than ever.
> http://www.dhs.org/pipermail/systalk/1999-July/007592.html
>               
> "In order for dhcpd to work correctly with picky DHCP clients (e.g.,
> Windows 95), it must be able to send packets with an IP destination
> address of 255.255.255.255.  Unfortunately, Linux insists on changing
> 255.255.255.255 into the local subnet broadcast address (here, that's
> 192.5.5.223).  This results in a DHCP protocol violation, and while
> many DHCP clients don't notice the problem, some (e.g., all Microsoft
> DHCP clients) do.  Clients that have this problem will appear not to
> see DHCPOFFER messages from the server.
> 
> It is possible to work around this problem on some versions of Linux
> by creating a host route from your network interface address to
> 255.255.255.255.   The command you need to use to do this on Linux
> varies from version to version.   The easiest version is:
> 
>         route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0"
> 
>       Someone please help me out here. I have downloaded and tried every
> version of dhcrelay from 1.1 to 1.4 and they all give the same error when
> they load. 
> 
>               Thanks in advance.



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