On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 14:53 +0300, Jukka Rissanen wrote: > I have been running this patch on my meego netbook and it has been very > useful. Now I get the same IP address back almost always which makes it > easy to ssh to the device and I do not have to constantly check my IP > address in netbook (of course this is perhaps a useful use case for me > only). The DHCP REQUESTED IP address option is just a hint to the server > anyway.
There's also things like the bugzilla 'remember my login FOR THIS IP ADDRESS' option, and the specific problem that triggered bug 21068 was with remote desktop; apparently a session can be resumed only from the same IP address as the original connection. There are *plenty* of reasons why you don't want your IP address changing unless it absolutely *has* to. Even after you go away and come back (or reboot, or whatever). It would have been nice if the DHCP *server* was responsible for this; since it has to keep a database of who's been using each address in its pool *anyway*, why the hell couldn't it remember the last user for each IP address in its pool, and use that give back the appropriate IP address automatically? But that isn't the way it was designed; the RFC says that the client should *ask* for its previous IP address. So that's what we should do. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
