A question about bootpd-dhcp
Mohamed el Lozy <ellozy@jimmy.harvard.edu> Mon, 26 February 1996 16:50 UTC
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From: Mohamed el Lozy <ellozy@jimmy.harvard.edu>
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Subject: A question about bootpd-dhcp
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I am running the bootp-dhcp server and it works quite well. However, I am seeing what seems to me to be a problem (bug), though it may be the correct action. I change the IP address of a client in my database. When the lease renewal time (half the lease time, hard coded into the server software) is up, the client sends a request using its now obsolete IP address. That address is not found in the bootptab, and a message "Unknown IP address" is logged. The server does not check to see if it knows the asociated MAC address after it fails to find the IP address. Is this the "correct" behavior, or should it first search on the IP address and, if that fails, search on the MAC address? Thanks. Mohamed
- A question about bootpd-dhcp Mohamed el Lozy
- Re: A question about bootpd-dhcp Ralph Droms