org.apache.directory.server.dhcp.service

Interface DhcpService

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDhcpService, StoreBasedDhcpService

public interface DhcpService

DHCP Protocol (RFC 2131, RFC 2132). Implementations of the DHCP service must be thread-safe with respect to concurrent calls to getReplyFor().

Author:

Apache Directory Project

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DhcpMessage	getReplyFor(InetSocketAddress localAddress, InetSocketAddress clientAddress, DhcpMessage request) Retrieve the reply to a given message.

Method Detail

getReplyFor

DhcpMessage getReplyFor(InetSocketAddress localAddress,
                        InetSocketAddress clientAddress,
                        DhcpMessage request)
                 throws DhcpException

Retrieve the reply to a given message. The reply may be zero, if the message should be ignored.

Parameters:

localAddress - TODO

clientAddress -

request -

Returns:

DhcpMessage

Throws:

DhcpException