> From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allber...@gmail.com] > > It > depends on whether the OS actually tears down the interface while > renegotiating or leaves it valid;
Acknowledged: It's OS dependent. If you jump from one AP to another, on the same network with the same SSID, and get the same IP again via DHCP, some OSes dump the TCP stack, and apparently some don't. But I didn't test every OS, so I don't know which ones behave which way. In fact, for several years, I've always deployed AP's that support roaming, so I haven't even tested on any modern OSes. I know around 2006, XP dumped the TCP stack, so I went to roaming AP's, and consider the problem solved. I don't know anything more current than that. If your AP's support roaming, then the problem is irrelevant, regardless of client OS. And there's another point, which I think probably doesn't matter 99.9% of the time: You don't have to query DHCP again. I've never had a situation that I cared about this behavior, but it's not inconceivable that sometimes it might matter for some environments. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
