Without Option 50 in DHCPDICSCOVER

[DavidWang@UoGuelph]

Thanks David. I must been missed some parts of the RFCs.
On 8/1/07, David W. Hankins <David_Hankins at isc.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:40:32PM -0400, DavidWang at UoGuelph wrote:
> > Good day, I have seen multiple cases that Windows XP/Vista machines
> sending
> > out DHCP DISCOVER packet without Option 50. Does this normal? Is there
> any
> > way to change client side's behavior? (like changing some registry keys)
>
> This is normal.  Any DHCP client will omit the dhcp-requested-address
> in a DHCPDISCOVER if the lease has expired and been removed from its
> cache, or has been invalidated (as from a DHCPNAK).
>
> The dhcp-requested-address option is somewhat confusingly, but
> normally, included and omitted at different stages of a client's
> lifecycle.
>
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