lease limit 1 and Apple Mac Computers creates duplicate IP address

Chris Buxton clists at buxtonfamily.us
Sat Sep 14 19:26:11 UTC 2013


On Sep 12, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Matt Jenkins <matt at smarterbroadband.net> wrote:
> I can reproduce both of the following situations. All result in a duplicate IP address issues. All appear to be the fault of Apple Mac OS. Has anyone else ever seen this or found a fix for it?
> 
> 4. Apple computer connects and is unable to get a lease. It then assigns itself the original IP address it had. Now there is an IP conflict.

Yup. It's an Apple thing.

Regards,
Chris Buxton


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