> I'm a sysadmin for my school, and I'm in charge of DHCP. Now, dhcpd > remembers the IP that a computer has even after it is released, so that > if, a day or so later, that IP has not been claimed and the original > computer requests a new IP address, dhcpd will give the computer the same > one it had last time. Is there any way to turn off this behavior, so that > anytime a computer requests a new address, it takes the first available > instead of the last one that computer had? You might want to read the DHCP RFC first. There are good sound protocol reasons for this behaviour. dhcpd will reissue addresses that it had an old owner for if it has to but its reluctance is there for very good reasons - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
