dhcpdecline messages

[David W. Hankins]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:26:49PM -0800, Hai Tao wrote:
> you are right for host statement.
>   however, when I ping this ip address, no reply received. how can the client find a conflict while I can not ping it? thanks!

Most clients probe ARP.  If something is answering positively for
the ARP, it will cause the client to decline.

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