http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21172238 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:14:47 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:14:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21174560 Bill_MI : Server Identifier Address is the DHCP server so will be the router's IP, 192.168.1.1 if Linksys default. The field is actually sent hex = C0A80101.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21174560 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:53:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21172238 anon : Consider a home networking scenario, where a computer is attached to the Internet behind, say, a Linksys router. The public face of the router is of course, a globally unique IP address (say 18.24.23.1). The Linksys router gives the computer a 192.168. address, and the computer sends all the Internet-bound IP PDUs over to the router to dispatch accordingly.

My question is, what is the value of the siaddr field in the DHCPOFFER or DHCPACK message which the Linksys box will send to the computer? Is it the globally unique IP address of the server, or some other 192.168. address? Does it matter? Does the answer depend on the brand?

Thanks for all your responses.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21172238 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:10:56 EDT