Two consecutive lease entries for same MAC address

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Sep 22 14:59:33 UTC 2009


Reissom Beshir wrote:

>Have you considered using the MAC address as the UID when the UID is 
>not provided by the client.  That way the client receives the same 
>address when the UID happens to be the same value as the MAC address 
>as the case here.

There have been a number of patches submitted to do this, whether any 
of them still work with the current code I've no idea. None have ever 
made it into the release code as they explicitly break RFC compliance.

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