Comment Re:Satellites FTW? (Score 1) 145
My company has some servers located on Malta, we were down for about 8 hours before they could re-route the traffic. Ironically, we have better routing through Europe now than before the break.
My company has some servers located on Malta, we were down for about 8 hours before they could re-route the traffic. Ironically, we have better routing through Europe now than before the break.
always-broadcast flag;
The DHCP and BOOTP protocols both require DHCP and BOOTP clients to set the broadcast bit in the flags field of the BOOTP message header. Unfortunately, some DHCP and BOOTP clients do not do this, and therefore may not receive responses from the DHCP server. The DHCP server can be made to always broadcast its responses to clients by setting this flag to 'on' for the relevant scope; relevant scopes would be inside a conditional statement, as a parameter for a class, or as a parameter for a host declaration. To avoid creating excess broadcast traffic on your network, we recommend that you restrict the use of this option to as few clients as possible. For example, the Microsoft DHCP client is known not to have this problem, as are the OpenTransport and ISC DHCP clients.
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