PATCH for server/dhcp.c
Brian T
btuchten at jbmelectronics.com
Tue Mar 21 19:58:33 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.
Ok, that makes sense kind of. Why would you ever want 2 separate DHCP
servers on the same subnet? Isn't that asking for an
administrative/troubleshooting
nightmare?
-Brian
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