Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

sathya sai put forth on 12/22/2009 12:26 AM:

> *I could also see that, our debian dhclient presently DOES NOT HAVE AN
> OPTION TO IMPLICITLY SUPPORT THIS.* 
>  
> But as per RFC 2131,  the client should perform a final check to detect
> the IP conflict and send DHCPDECLINE message. Please find the RFC
> snippet as in below,

Why aren't you able to create a reservation on the dhcp server?  That is the
very very simple and _correct_ solution to this problem.  This is exactly why
dhcp servers have code to allow reservations.

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Stan