<html><head></head><body>Grant is saying most of the stuff that was going through my head, here, I was just busy eating lunch at the time so I did not show my work. ;-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 8, 2022 11:49:43 AM EDT, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">On 6/8/22 9:30 AM, Simon Lockhart via Outages wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Centralised DHCP server in conjunction with DHCP relay at remote sites.<br></blockquote><br>Thank you for clarifying local broadcast vs remote relay Simon L. (1st message) and Chris W. (terms).<br><br>I too had been wondering the same thing that Jay A. was asking about. Now I see a possible / viable reason.<br><br>However, I do wonder why such DHCP relay traffic would be in the clear and not inside of a VPN (encrypted or otherwise).<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">If I were buying an Internet service, I wouldn't expect my service provider<br>to arbitarily block some ports (unless it's to protect against an ongoing<br>network attack, and it was communicated to customers).<br></blockquote><br>I too expect that ISPs to be agnostic / common carrier / bit movers. The only thing that I'm willing to accept is filtering specific traffic in accordance with industry best practice in the spirit of being -- what I've long hear referred to as -- a Good (Inter)Net Neighbor. E.g. filtering traffic that's actively abused and / or related to (D)DOS attacks. I also expect that such filtering to be well documented and to have ways for legitimate use cases to be exempted therefrom.<br><br>P.S. I'm replying to Outages-Discussion as my comments don't directly contribute to Outages proper.<br><br><br><br><div class="k9mail-signature">-- <br>Grant. . . .<br>unix || die<br><br></div></pre></blockquote></div><div style='white-space: pre-wrap'><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>