ProxyDHCP Server for PXE

Hi NG,

I'm wondering about the proxyDHCP/PXE server. What is the meaning/advantage
of a seperate proxyDHCP server?

A standard DHCP can also do the pxe tasks, isn't it? So why using a
proxyDHCP?

Bye
Karl

Karl Mauer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi NG,
>
> I'm wondering about the proxyDHCP/PXE server. What is the meaning/advantage
> of a seperate proxyDHCP server?
>
> A standard DHCP can also do the pxe tasks, isn't it? So why using a
> proxyDHCP?

You use a DHCP relay (I'm thinking that's what you mean) when the DHCP
server is not on the same subnet as the client. Remember, DHCP uses
broadcast IP (255.255.255.255) to find the DHCP server in the local
subnet. Broadcast packets such as this are never forwarded by routers,
so the router has a DHCP relay server installed, which listens for
DHCP messages, forwarding them to the real DHCP server which would be
somewhere else on the network.

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