max processing time....

[Glenn Satchell]

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>Hi
>what is the max time taken by the DHCP server for processing 
>an incoming packet (may be DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPREQUEST, etc.)
>
>please comment...
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>thanks & regards
>Sanjib

Depends on your hardware, ie a 3GHz CPU will be quicker than a 1GHz,
but it's still pretty quick (in the order of a few milliseconds max
typically). A packet sniffer would give you the time difference between
DISCOVER and OFFER in milliseconds.

  0.00000 OLD-BROADCAST -> BROADCAST    DHCP/BOOTP DHCPDISCOVER
  0.05110 drill.uniq.com.au -> dhcp-14-247.uniq.com.au DHCP/BOOTP DHCPOFFER
  0.00120 OLD-BROADCAST -> BROADCAST    DHCP/BOOTP DHCPREQUEST
  0.03021 drill.uniq.com.au -> dhcp-14-247.uniq.com.au DHCP/BOOTP DHCPACK

regards,
-glenn