http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10653
Darren Kenny <dkenny at opensolaris.org> changed:
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AssignedTo|nwam-dev at opensolaris.org |dkenny at opensolaris.org
--- Comment #3 from Darren Kenny <dkenny at opensolaris.org> 2009-08-14
08:32:31 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> The DHCP flag in the ifconfig output does not necessarily mean that
> the address was acquired from DHCP; the address is not the only
> configuration data that can be obtained from the DHCP server. Given
> that there is no dns-nameservice-configsrc value specified for this
> location, the default value would be used, and the default is to get
> this information from the DHCP server. Thus nwamd would have initiated
> a DHCP inform transaction to get that info, which would cause the DHCP
> flag to be turned on.
>
> Bottom line is that the presence of the DHCP flag does not necessarily
> mean that the address itself was DHCP-assigned; it simply means that a
> DHCP transaction of some sort has occurred.
Ah, didn't realise that!
So I'm assuming there is no way to validate where the address really came from,
other than to remember what the saved configuration is vs the in-memory
configuration (which could differ).
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