[j-nsp] BOOTP helper on MX vrf

[Ben Dale]

It's also now available on the SRX as of 12.1X44D10.  

One to watch though - Mac OSX and most other non-windows clients will fail to get an address from the JDHCP daemon because they set the BOOTP Unicast flag on all requests, whereas Windows will fall-back to broadcast after 30 seconds.  The following command will fix it even though the text of the knob says the complete opposite of what it seems to do:

set system services dhcp-local-server group BLAH interface BLAH overrides no-unicast-replies
(or under your routing-instance)

Ben


On 13/06/2013, at 9:03 PM, Sebastian Wiesinger <juniper-nsp at ml.karotte.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> as I'm hearing conflicting information regarding bootp helper on MX
> routers in a vrf routing-instance, has anyone a working configuration?
> 
> What I need:
> 
> Forward DHCP broadcast requests from one vrf interface to a central
> DHCP server in the same VRF (classical bootp helper functionality). I
> don't want bootp helper on *every* interface, just a few.
> 
> So any information regarding this is appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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