I am jumping in the middle of the thread, but have been reading this with
curiosity. It is an Interesting discussion, but I have a question.
Regarding the information below: I believe I read in the documentation for
dhcp a while back that the dhcp server keeps a database of the clients and
the ip numbers assigned to them. From my understanding this was so that the
server could reassign the same address to the clients (If in fact the
address is available). Did I understand this correctly or does the database
just keep track of addresses that are unavailable and can not be assigned.
Thanks,
Chad
> You didn't read my post carefully, did you? :-)
> I said, Windows machines *ask* for the same IP address. If it is not
> available, the server sends a negative acknowledge packet, and then the
> workstation asks for *AN* ip address. It does NOT insists on getting the
> same one over and over again.
>
> Case at hand:
> I have a laptop. I plug it in into our network. I gets an IP. I turn it
> off, take it home, and plug it into my network at home. It asks for the
> last IP address. The server rejects the request. The laptop gets an IP
> from the server.
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