Re: [dhcwg] [homenet] What to do when we lose DHCPv4 election?

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> Mon, 17 August 2015 10:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] [homenet] What to do when we lose DHCPv4 election?
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>> 2. remain silent in response to DHCPDISCOVER, but NAK any DHCPREQUEST; or

> I think that #2 is probably correct, but I have two questions.

By the way, if some Wise Person were kind enough to check my DHCPv4
server for compliance, I'd be very grateful.  The code is here:

    https://github.com/jech/shncpd/blob/master/dhcpv4.c#L663