randomly(!) assign ip's from dynamic address range

Mark Sandrock sandrock at mac.com
Fri Jun 5 18:05:44 UTC 2015


 
> On Jun 5, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.email> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/5/15 10:29 AM, Mark Sandrock wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Jun 5, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.email> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 6/5/15 9:44 AM, Bob Harold wrote:
>>>> Interesting idea to remove expired lease information form the server.
>>>> But I think that clients also remember their IP and request it the next
>>>> time they connect.  Is that true?
>>> 
>>> Yes, they will DHCPDISCOVER for the address they already had.
>> 
>> But if the client-to-IP address association
>> is not maintained, i.e., is immediately
>> scavenged, then there is more of a
>> possibility that the old IP will be given
>> out to some other client before the
>> previous owner requests it back, yes?
> 
> No, because all the other clients are going to DHCPDISCOVER for their old addresses as well.
> 

All the other old clients anyway.

Mark



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