On 12/11/2012 11:08 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: >> The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before >> assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will >> avoid assigning that address to another client. > > ICMP ping? Are you sure?
I suppose Bob was referring to the ping-check as per the ISC dhcpd, see http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd.conf The client has to renew the lease, indeed, but the server also tries to make sure there are no duplicate IPs in the network. Cheers Wolfgang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
