Subject: Re: Request messages

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:56:25 +0530

Please respond to [email-masked]

To:   DHCPv6 discussion list <[email-masked]>
cc:    (bcc: Suresh Kodati/India/IBM)
Subject:  Request messages

Hi,

In sub-section 13.3.1 of draft 18,
Why are the REQUEST messages sent to
multicast address ( All DHCP Agents ),
given that the "server-address" field
contains the address of the DHCP server
we'd like to talk to ?
Why don't we send it directly to that
server unicast address ?

Thank and regards.

Hi
if the client do not have sufficient scope to reach the server, the relays
configured for all dhcp agents mulitcast address  forwards the REQUEST
message to the corresponding server unicast address.
Suresh Kodati