Michael Robinson wrote: > I wonder if being a switch it was blocking the dhcp replies? Switches don't block broadcast protocols like DHCP. Routers do and if DHCP traffic has to traverse a different network than a DHCP proxy must be configured.
However, there are a couple of cases where dhcp requests/replies could be inadvertently blocked. 1. The DHCP client and dhcp server are on different VLANs. 2. Spanning Tree port configuration is another. With regular spanning tree (8021.d), the switch port could be in blocking mode while the spanning tree is being mapped out and therefore any DHCP traffic will not pass thru the port. As best practice we always configured the switch ports with rapid spanning tree (802.1w), so that spanning tree convergence happened faster and didn't impact dhcp requests. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
