ISC DHCP server always ACKs DHCPREQUESTs without checking the server identier

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Fri Feb 23 13:15:25 UTC 2007


Jordan Gordeev wrote:

>I'm not using failover. I'd really like to know the reason for ACKing
>REQUESTs for other servers.

It isn't a request for other servers, it's a request BROADCAST to all 
servers. If the address requested is valid for the network & server 
config then it's valid for the server to ack it.


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