dhcprequest function

[Ted Lemon]

On Mar 29, 2004, at 5:33 PM, dhcp.50.CHRIS94561 at spamgourmet.com wrote:
> I've gone throught rfc2131 and Figure 5 on page 34 in section 4.4 "DHCP
> client behavior" seems to imply that the client can indeed be NAKed 
> when
> renewing or rebinding. I was unsure if this group or dhcp-server was 
> the
> right place to ask. Many appologies if I picked the wrong one.

Maybe it would have been better to say "the protocol describes how 
DHCPNAKs should be sent in a way that precludes sending DHCPNAKs to a 
RENEWING client."

Because a RENEWING client unicast its renewal, you can't broadcast the 
response, and DHCPNAKs are always supposed to be broadcast.