DHCP client takes too much time to get IP address

[Alessandro FAGLIA]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: DHCP client takes too much time to get IP address
From: Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk>
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 20:06:49 GMT+0100 (ora solare Europa occidentale)

Hi list,
>
> Well the first thing is that I now see that the range in question has 
> no limitation on it - so unknown clients can get addresses from it. 
> The default is that anything is allowed.
>
> If all the addresses in that range are allocated by fixed address 
> statements in host declarations then it is redundant and you would 
> probably want to remove it. In general, if you don't want an address 
> allocated dynamically to a client, don't include it in a range statement.
>
>
OK, I made a shared-network declaration that embraces all statements 
related to subnets, pools and groups.
I also fixed pools ok known and unknown clients like this:

pool {
  range 192.168.1.170 192.168.1.179;
  allow unknown clients;
}

pool {
  range 192.168.1.180 192.168.1.199;
  deny unknown clients;
}

In this way I hope clients with unknown MAC address will fall in the 
first pool.
The second pool declaration is (a kind of) reminder that clients for 
which I have the MAC address will have a host statement below.
If I understood correctly, I could avoid to declare this pool.


Regards
--Alessandro