Strange Client Behavior

Bruce Hudson Bruce.Hudson at Dal.Ca
Thu Dec 3 23:47:38 UTC 2009


    You can easily get two different leases assigned to a MAC address if
one includes a client identifier and the other does not; or they both
include different client identifiers. You can turn this off if you wish
by including "one-lease-per-client true" in your configuration. This
causes the server to drop existing leases for a client when it gives
one out. This may have adverse affects in this situation however since
the client would still think it had a lease on the first address. 

    You may get a better idea what is going on by looking it the lease
database for these IP addresses to see what client identifiers are in
use. They may encode something to identify the client. 
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Bruce A. Hudson				| Bruce.Hudson at Dal.CA
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