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This feature should not be called "DCHP relaying in MAAS". Rather "DHCP Relaying to a MAAS-managed DHCP server"
https://docs.ubuntu.com/maas/2.2/en/installconfig-network-dhcp#dhcp-relay
"DHCP relay
DHCP relaying in MAAS is an advanced feature"
Although expressed in the documentation, the key part here is that a DHCP server set up by MAAS is the one being relayed to:
MAAS rackd's DHCP <-- relayed requests <-- DHCP/BOOTP Relay Set up Manually <-- DHCP/BOOTP Client
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/diagrams/bootprelay.png
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_BOOTPRelayAgentsForwardingAgents-3.htm
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_DHCPMessageRelayingandBOOTPRelayAgents.htm
I would like to illustrate that it is not mandatory to have a rackd on the same layer 2 network as the node that is trying to PXE boot.
L2 segment 1 <-- arbitrary layer 3 network <-- L2 segment 2
Those two diagrams would ideally need to be present in our docs (minus colors and style):
https://github.com/dshcherb/maas-concepts/blob/master/rackd_dhcp_pxe_relay.svg
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/diagrams/bootprelay.png
The same applies for out-of-band management too - it is enough to have L3 reachability to manage a node via IPMI or other OOB protocols.
So, two cases:
and
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