dissecting DHCP - Q1

[David W. Hankins]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:19:45AM +1300, Defryn, Guy wrote:
> lab environment and my peer state was set to communication interrupted.
> Could this have caused the change in IP, although same server gave out lease?

Yes.

The transition (released->free) has to be acknowledged by the peer,
which can't be done if they aren't communicating.

-- 
David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		     you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins
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