Hi,
I've seen sporatic occurrences of the following;
1)a user starts a DHCP negotiation session with a discover etc. and
obtains an IP address
2)the user will re-confirm the IP address at the half-life time of the
lease
3)then the user will do a DHCP-request as if re-confirming the IP
address....but this does not occur at the half-life of the lease time...it
seems to happen at random times....and then will occasionally reconfirm at
the half-life time again.
I'm assuming this is not a usual occurrence. I thought that this was a
symptom of a user with a weak wireless signal and is therefore
occasionally thinks it's lost the network. However, I would have thought
that a device, once losing it's network would start the DHCP routine all
over again....starting with a DHCP-discover, but this is not the case, the
series begins with a DHCP-request from the users. I've seen this with
XP and MACs... Has anyone else seen stuff like this?.......is there any
chance that this is normal (I suspect not as the user I'm monitoring right
now with this behaviour is complaining about getting dropped etc.)
........thanks in advance...............J
James Savage York University
Senior Communications Tech. 108 Steacie Building
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ph: 416-736-2100 ext. 22605 Toronto, Ontario
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