DHCP client takes too much time to get IP address

[Simon Hobson]

Alessandro FAGLIA wrote:

>OK, I made a shared-network declaration that embraces all statements 
>related to subnets, pools and groups.
>I also fixed pools ok known and unknown clients like this:
>
>pool {
>  range 192.168.1.170 192.168.1.179;
>  allow unknown clients;
>}
>
>pool {
>  range 192.168.1.180 192.168.1.199;
>  deny unknown clients;
>}
>
>In this way I hope clients with unknown MAC address will fall in the 
>first pool.
>The second pool declaration is (a kind of) reminder that clients for 
>which I have the MAC address will have a host statement below.
>If I understood correctly, I could avoid to declare this pool.

I believe that all clients that would match this pool are given fixed 
addresses - you should remove the range statement because the 
addresses are not available for leasing dynamically.