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Hi,
I'm running a large switched network, where we separate each port in an individual VLAN for security purposes. Unfortunately I have a seen with a sniffer on a users port, that he can see DHCPOFFERs belong to other users on other ports, cause isc-dhcpd-V3.0.4 is sending the Offer as broadcast to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. I read following in a book about that topic: Note: The Internet Software Consortium (ISC) DHCP server cheats when it can by setting the IP destination address to 255.255.255.255 and the link layer destination address to the client's link-layer address. This is technically incorrect, but it works well and reduces the amount of broadcast traffic generated by the DHCP server." Under which conditions does ISC-DHCPD answer with unicast offers? Doese the paramater shared-network influences this behaviour? How can I force ISC DHPC always to answer unicast (link layer) on DHCPDISCOVERS? Thanks for your help! regards Oliver |