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. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
