Re: DHCP reply not leaving machine

Phil Mayers wrote:

If you do add this, *please* leave it as an option, with normal UDP sockets there too.

Absolutely. If the server doesn't get broadcast packets, it should just do unicast UDP (from / to giaddr).

One of the most IRRITATING things about the ISC DHCP server (aside from it's crappy logging) is that it bypasses the OS IP stack - not only does this mean various tricks like policy routing don't work, but since the link-layer processing has to be hard-coded for each interface/link type, esoteric things (GRE, IP/IP) can't run an ISC dhcp listener.

Yes. It wouldn't be hard to do normal UDP sockets. But no... the ISC people are smarter than you. You don't need that! Alan DeKok.