Watching performance on a DHCP Server

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> ISPs use DHCP to assign addresses to N computers from a pool of M
> addresses with M < N. When a client comes back and wants an address, it
> gets a different address because the previous address has been
> reassigned to a different client.

No, when a client comes back, it will *usually* get the same address -
because the address has *not* been reassigned to a different client.

Also, with "always on" services (ADSL etc) the number of IP addresses
in the pool may not necessarily be smaller than the number of clients.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no