Warning: subnet overlaps subnet

[David W. Hankins]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:07:35AM +0100, Sten Carlsen wrote:
> I have been thinking for a while, why is there a difference between what 
> is reported by OFFER and INFORM?

it depends on configuration.  the easiest way to say it is the rfc
tells us we don't have to know about the client's lease information,
if any, and yet config syntax permits the assignment of config on a
basis depending on lease.

> Would the correct action not be to make sure they report the same? I.e. 
> do the same processing on both OFFER and INFORM.

to some extent we can do more to make replies 'more similar', and we
probably should to the extent that it doesn't overburden inform
processing, but we are always going to have a small window of config
syntax that only works on DORA and can't be sourced on an INFORM.

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