AFAIK Mac OSX does a trick here: it uses the last IP (still in the old lease file) and immediately configures the network with that. *) Then it does the DHCP, asking for the same IP. If the IP returned was changed, it will re-change. But usually it's the same IP address, and therefore on this OS DHCP doesn't take longer than static IP.
Strictly speaking the DHCP protocol is not violated that way: DHCP itself works as expected, e.g. the DHCP packets are following the RFC. And ip clients should copy with changed IP addresses anyway, because DHCP can assign any IP address at renogiation time. *) it might do an RARP to find out if the IP is available ... _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
