On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:51 +0800, Peter Memishian wrote:
> The DHCP client only uses DLPI until it gets a lease. It then switches
> to sockets for lease extensions and releases. So it seems like customers
> would already be pretty broken if their firewall rules filtered DHCP.
It would depend on your definition of "broken" and on how observant the
system administrators were.
I suspect it would mostly appear to work most of the time, with sporadic
but brief interruptions in service of a few seconds when the DHCP client
timed out one lease and fell back to DLPI to get the next one.
- Bill
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