SV: DISCOVER bursts

[Staffan.Ungsgard at teliasonera.com]

My original analysis was somewhat off, but my race theory still remains.

This is what happened:

The client did a discover and got an offer. In respons to the offer the client erroneously answered with a new discover.
This second discover arrived 20 milliseconds after the first discover. The dhcp server regarded this a totally new discover.
I have sniffed the traffic and diffed the discovers - they are indeed the same.
It does seem like the server still at the second discover has recorded the original one and hence offers a new address.

I know it's single threaded - this is very strange.

-- Staffan

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Simon Hobson
Sent: den 9 januari 2007 12:21
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: SV: DISCOVER bursts

Thinking about this thread a bit more, if the server is single threaded shouldn't that mean that it's not possible for it to respond to another client request until it's handled the first - and hence created the lease record ?

If that is the case, I'm not sure how the server could be handing out different addresses to the same client if all it's requests have the same mac/client-id.