WPAD and DHCP Servers

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 29, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:

> Hi Trevor. See http://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/networking/guide/netdhcp.html 
>  for a basic treatment of the issue.
>
> You use the global broadcast address for DHCP which is  
> 255.255.255.255 as the source and 0.0.0.0 as the destination. (I  
> have seen some DHCP servers use the subnet broadcast address which  
> would be 255.255.0.0 for a class B subnet, but it proved to be  
> problematic.)
>
> DHCP is a broadcast protocol, given the fact that you don't actually  
> have an address on the subnet yet. You would issue a DHCPREQUEST on  
> destination port number 67 using 68 as the source port. Clients  
> always use 67 and servers always use 68.
> ...

Thanks for the info Bob. Very helpful.

Now I just need to figure out how to make these requests from Rev...  
Anyone know how to do this?

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Trevor DeVore
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