randomizing lease renewal?

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:01:42PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote:
> Again, I ask the question, how is forcing a client to acquire a new 
> IP address any more harmful than having a cable, DSL, or wireless 
> connection drop offline? Now, to use your example, I completely 
> agree that the concept of having everyone be forced to a new IP 
> address on a short timer would be inefficient and not helpful.  
> Having said that, there are lots of ways of building inefficient 
> networks :)

There is a big difference between dropping a link and readdressing an 
endpoint.  The former may cause a minor interruption in traffic flow, 
which may then resume if the outage is short enough/timers long 
enough.  The latter is guaranteed to break all existing sessions, 
requiring the user to reconnect, reauthenticate, etc.

> I think that OSS loses when we decide that a feature isn't "moral" 
> to include since closed source vendors don't have the same 

Well, it is OSS so anyone can include any feature they want.