[olug] bridging networks

Obi-Wan obiwan at jedi.com
Tue May 4 03:57:07 UTC 2010


> On Monday 03 May 2010 02:01:55 pm Sam Tetherow wrote:
>> You shouldn't need a DHCP relay as the DHCP request will contain the MAC
>> address it is requesting an address for, it doesn't use the layer 2 MAC
>> for assignment.
> 
> ARP proxy doesn't forward DHCP requests, I think.

Correct.  DHCP proxy is its own animal, and is required for DHCP to
function across disjoint broadcast subnets.

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