Re: new issue: LL34 Better transition to routable from v4LL using DHCP

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:06, Robert Elz wrote:
>   | This is really a DHCP issue but it would seem preferable to have DHCP
>   | servers announce their presence (and readines to assign addresses) with
>   | a periodic broadcast, rather than have all the clients broadcasting in
>   | an effort to locate a server.
> 
> This is real hard to achieve - the clients can be almost anywhere, they're
> not all on the same LAN as the DHCP server.   For this to be practical, the
> DHCP server would need to know where all its possible relay agents were
> located, and enlist their help in sending that kind of message.   That's
> not something that a typical dhcp server knows now.

Hmm. The relay agents know where the DHCP server is. Why not have the
relays poll the server and broadcast a DHCPADVERTISE on their local
link. It still better than having the clients poll the server through
the relays. Am I missing something?

	MikaL