Re: NFS automount not happening

[Wolfgang Karall <lists+debian-user@karall-edv.at>]

On 12/11/2012 11:08 AM, Chris Davies wrote:
> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>> The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before
>> assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will
>> avoid assigning that address to another client.
> 
> ICMP ping? Are you sure?

I suppose Bob was referring to the ping-check as per the ISC dhcpd, see
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd.conf

The client has to renew the lease, indeed, but the server also tries to
make sure there are no duplicate IPs in the network.

Cheers
Wolfgang