randomly(!) assign ip's from dynamic address range

Mark Sandrock sandrock at mac.com
Fri Jun 5 17:29:21 UTC 2015


> On Jun 5, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.email> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/5/15 9:44 AM, Bob Harold wrote:
>> Interesting idea to remove expired lease information form the server.
>> But I think that clients also remember their IP and request it the next
>> time they connect.  Is that true?
> 
> Yes, they will DHCPDISCOVER for the address they already had.
> 

But if the client-to-IP address association
is not maintained, i.e., is immediately
scavenged, then there is more of a
possibility that the old IP will be given
out to some other client before the
previous owner requests it back, yes?

Mark




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