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Hi!
This is what happens when you get good software and don't have to touch
it for a couple of years. You forget stuff. My question is down below.
>
>The answer is that it all _should_ work, given a few caveats. First,
>understand that as long as you _don't_ change the network interface
>card in your DHCP client, and as long as you don't have a very large
>address pool, it is entirely reasonable to expect that a client will
>_always_ get the same address, even if you don't have a static address
>assigned to it.
>
>The DHCP server is very cagey about giving away the addresses of
>former clients whose leases have expired. If there are any addresses
>that have never been assigned, those addresses will be assigned first.
>Once that pool of addresses has been exhausted, the lease that expired
>least recently will be reassigned, and so on. Thus, it is only when
>there are more active clients than IP addresses that it's reasonable
You have 5 available addresses and are all being used. User #5 logs
out and powers off the ole pc,
but still has lease time that has not expired. Will the next new user
get that one "available" address?
Thanks,
Keith
>to expect that a client will get a different address the next time it
>rebinds its lease.
>
>In addition to the effort that the server makes to remember which
>clients it's talked to and always assign them the same address, the
>clients also remember what address they last had, and request it again
>when it's time to renew a lease, or when they power on (some clients
>don't retain this information, but certainly the Microsoft client
>does).
>
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