Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Steven Shiau <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Does this mean you removed the client identifier and dhcpd handed out >>> the same IP address when Linux booted? >>> >> Yes. That's true here. >> > > I'm not a DHCP expert. It would be interesting to check the RFCs and > ISC dhcpd IP allocation code. I assumed DHCP servers only hash MAC > addresses for IP allocation but your case shows that the client > identifier also comes into play. > Not really. From RFC 2131: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2131 DHCP client identifier is honored if it's assigned. > Could you change the Linux dhcp client's identifier - > which one you change is arbitrary, right? > FWIK, basically yes, you can give it an arbitrary value, if it's unique in the subnet.
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