On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 05:55:50 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > Wait a sec: before the clients get an answer from the DHCP server, > they don't have any route (at least not for the network in question), > so it doesn't make sense poking at them with ip route and things. > They send their request to the local network's segment broadcast > address.
As I understand things, that's true of the first request a client makes, say, at boot. After that, the client knows which machine it got its last lease from and can query directly. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
