Server Down - How should Client Act?

[Melody Helt]

Both server and client are Redhat 9


>From: Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>
>Reply-To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: Server Down - How should Client Act?
>Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 01:06:03 -0500
>
>Melody Helt wrote:
> > I have my default lease set up for 3 mins for experimentation.  I am 
>giving
> > out a static IP based on MAC address.
> >
> > My server does down.  Using ethereal to watch the network traffic, I see
> > that at about 1/2 the time of the lease, the client sends out a 
>DHCPREQUEST
> > message then 5 seconds later sends out another DHCPREQUEST.  Nothing 
>else
> > happens.
> >
> > After the lease time expires, the server starts up again.  No 
>communication
> > occurs between client & server.  The client has to be rebooted in order 
>for
> > it to communicate & get an IP from the server.
> >
> >>From reading on the internet, I thought that once the lease expired, the
> > client would keep broadcasting a message trying to find a host.  This
> > doesn't seem to be the case in my experiment.  Should the client keep
> > broadcasting?
> >
> > In this situation, is there anyway to get the client & server to 
>communicate
> > without having to reboot the client?
>
>In case any of the suggestions dont work, what OS is the client?
>
>Carl K
>

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