[unisog] Mac OS X 10.4.x "DHCP client sometimes remains BOUND aftersending DHCPDISCOVER" bug
David W. Hankins
David_Hankins at isc.org
Thu Feb 1 22:44:32 UTC 2007
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:19:15PM -0500, Irwin Tillman wrote:
> My point is that the RFC does indeed expect the server to figure out
> the state of the client in some places, and behave differently.
The reason the server needs to detect these things is because a
DHCPREQUEST communicates client intent. The DHCPREQUEST message
is overloaded. This is why these overloaded meanings are
segregated into different messages in DHCPv6.
DHCPDISCOVER communicates no intent.
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