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Re: Big Temporary Networks


From: Sean Harlow <sean () seanharlow info>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:33:39 -0400

On Sep 19, 2012, at 04:25, Masataka Ohta wrote:

As I already stated, DHCP discover/request from STA to AP is
unicast.

This didn't sound right, so I decided to test.  With the three clients available to me (laptop running OS X 10.7.4, 
phone running Android 4.0, and iPod running iOS 4.1.2) all client->server DHCP was broadcast, as well as server->client 
NACKs.  Server->client offers and ACKs were unicast.
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Sean Harlow
sean () seanharlow info

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