Re: Big Temporary Networks

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Sean Harlow wrote:

> > As I already stated, DHCP discover/request from STA to AP is
> > unicast.
>
> This didn't sound right, so I decided to test.

Your test is invalid.

> 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

Of course.

However, at WiFi L2, it is first unicast to AP and then broadcast
by the AP.

                                                Masataka Ohta