Re: Version 6 Question: Client trying to get new parameters

Richard Letts <R.J.Letts@salford.ac.uk> Thu, 11 April 1996 23:53 UTC

Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:52:47 -0400
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Gernot Riegert wrote....
> 
> A second question: In the description of the DHCP Release message, it is 
> said that a client might want to release ressources it doesn't need 
> anymore. What ressources are meant with these words? Could someone give 
> me an example?
suppose the TCPIP stack is implements as a DOS TSR [or apple init] when
the TSR is unloaded [or the apple shutdown] the stack might issue a
DHCP release as a friendly message, freeing the allocated IP
address(es)

Richard Letts  
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Version 6 Question: Client trying to get new para… Gernot Riegert
Re: Version 6 Question: Client trying to get new … Richard Letts
Re: Version 6 Question: Client trying to get new … Charlie Perkins
Re: Version 6 Question: Client trying to get new … bound
Re: Version 6 Question: Client trying to get new … Gernot Riegert