[Simon Hobson]

Costantino, Domenico wrote:

>I have a doubt, but it is creating problems for some clients.
>
>The scenario is as follows:
>I have two failover servers with version 4.2.1
>A client sends a DHCPDISCOVER broadcast to two servers
>Only one server sends DHCPOFFER
>Both servers receives the DHCPREQUEST (where client specify the 
>server choosed)
>
>Nevertheless both servers sends a DHCPACK (with the same IP but with 
>different ID servers), this means that if the client get a
>DHCP ACK from the server that had not chosen, that is with a 
>different ID servers, the client begins again with the process of 
>DISCOVER

This came up within the last couple of weeks - you may want to look 
through the archives.

IIRC the consensus was that the servers are correct according to the 
RFC and the client is broken.

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