PATCH for server/dhcp.c
Ted Lemon
Ted.Lemon at nominum.com
Tue Mar 21 19:29:30 UTC 2006
The reason not to send a DHCPNAK on an unknown lease is that it prevents
non-cooperating DHCP servers from coexisting. You really don't want one
DHCP server to assign an IP address not known to the other server, and then
have the other server send a DHCPNAK. So even if a server is authoritative,
it still won't send a DHCPNAK for an unknown address - only for an address
that is known to be invalid on the link or that it owns and has not assigned
to the client that's claiming it.
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