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Subject: Re: DHCP Over PPPoE
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Brian Candler wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:14:09AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>  
>
>>A few things..
>>
>>1/ thisn is a FreeBSD list so we are not very familiar with linux.
>>2/ PPPOE uses PPP which is a point-to-point protocol and does not support
>>  broadcast.
>>3/ DHCP is a broadcast protocol and does not support point-to-point
>> networks.
>>4/ PPP (oE)  has its own IP allocation mechanism.
>>    
>>
>
>But note that he is using DHCP relaying to a remote DHCP server. This
>original DHCP broadcast is picked up and turned into a unicast message for
>relaying to the DHCP server. This works quite happily over PPP or indeed any
>intervening IP network and any number of hops.
>  
>
only if he has a way to relay it (e.g. the isc dhcp relay daemon)