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> Hm, I was a bit curious when seeing that the ping was taken out for
> static assignment between some patchlevels long ago - thought the reason
> was something else (the needed state not being present due to static
> assignments not being recorded in the leases file, or something like
> that).

That's the technical reason why it was done.   The statement on which
you are commenting is just my clever rationalization for why it's okay
that I haven't fixed it yet.   :')

> If this is the only reason, I'd suggest that the check be done for
> static assignments too - you (i.e. the DHCP admin) should indeed know
> what you're doing, but that doesn't prevent a user from manually
> configuring an address that conflicts with your static assignments.

Yup.   I'll be making a change to the internal data structures that
will make this easier, but for now it's hard to do.

                               _MelloN_


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