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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: DHCP unicast
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2018-04-30 15:32:30
Message-ID: CAK1hOcM6ZRp_hGfseUxeb1BoYkWp0YiBaX2o6Dz3wXqr3__7oA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Alexander Mukhin
<alexander.i.mukhin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Denys,
>
> I have a doubt on your commit a6a3ad327360669e0c12552f680382e3b9713489,
> when you introduced a requirement that the DHCP Server ID must be
> directly reachable.
>
> Please consider a very common case when a DHCP relay is used. Here, the
> Server ID will never be a direcly connected address. Your commit
> effectively breaks any possibility of unicast communications with such a
> server.

Well, I see that serverid of 1.1.1.1 is handed out to my machine right now.
It is clearly bogus. So this does happen in real world.
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