<div>Thanks for your reply david. that was very useful information, </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM, David W. Hankins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhankins@isc.org">dhankins@isc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:49:34PM +0530, pat wrote:<br>> I guess you are mentioning the field seconds elapsed in DISCOVER message ?,<br><br></div>Yes, I presume that's what your capture software is naming it. In the<br>
RFC's, the field is labeled 'secs'.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> My load-balance-max-secs is 3 and the SPLIT is 128 from dhcpd.conf file,<br>> can you tell me what happens for the client with seconds elapsed is 18 and<br>> for the client with field same field set as 0.<br>
<br></div>Any client presenting a 'secs' value larger than 3 will not be load<br>balanced (so, less than or equal to 3 will be load balanced).<br><br>A value of 3 is often selected as this is seein on either the first or<br>
second retransmission, depending on client state, and the next<br>retransmission probably wouldn't be until 6 or 8 seconds again (so<br>secs would be ~18 by then, which is a rather long time to wait for a<br>lease).<br>
<div class="im"><br>> what does this Sec field mention, is it configurable from client or server<br>> side to go through hashing always?<br><br></div>The 'secs' field is supplied by the client, and describes how many<br>
seconds the client has been trying to get a configuration without<br>success ('secs' 0 is the first packet, from there on it roughly<br>describes how many seconds the client has been retransmitting).<br><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div class="h5">David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time,<br>Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again."<br>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins<br>
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