CN Boot P Protocol

Question

In bootp protocol client puts all 0 in source IP and broadcast the packet.Then relay agent encapsulate that in a unicast packet and send to boot p server.

How does boot p server know the Mac address of the client to which it is assigning the address ?

Answer 1

The unicast packet forwarded by relay agent has source MAC addr

Comments

How will relay agent gets the source mac ?Source will create the packet as :-

Data | 0.0.0.0 | 255.555.555 .

How will now relay agent gets the MAc address. Is it DLL layer which encapsulates this packet at source  put Mac or something else?

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Packet is further encapsulated by DLL header and CRC trailer
and DLL header has source and destination MAC.
 
A Frame encapsulates packet and this frame is actually transmitted.
Remember OSI hierarchy

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source will create--> Data | 0.0.0.0 | 255.555.555  at NL, at DLL packet will look like,

IP_packet | MAC_source | 255.255.255.255.255.255 and transfered to relay agent...

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