Re: A question about bootpd-dhcp

[Ralph Droms <[e-mail]>]

At 11:45 AM 2/26/96, Mohamed el Lozy wrote:
>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?


The DHCP server should search on the MAC address - actually, (MAC address,
subnet) or (client-id, subnet), depending on whether the client has
supplied a client-id - and return whatever IP address is associated with
that key.

- Ralph