[156549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Sep 19 17:56:01 2012
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:54:35 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Sean Harlow <sean@seanharlow.info>
In-Reply-To: <EF5FE2EA-EE8D-41E4-94E3-08EC1DA15B81@seanharlow.info>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
