Date: 01 Jan 2004 20:13:39 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isc-dhcpd weird effect Message-ID: <44smizup8c.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031231224849.17b6632e.pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> References: <20031231224849.17b6632e.pbrossin@swissgeeks.com>
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Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> writes: > I have a DHCP server at home (isc-dhcpd) and I've been wondering for a > long time why it is giving the last IP addresses of the specified > range at first? > Like I tell him a range from 10.0.0.50 to 10.0.0.100 and it's giving 100 > then 99,98,97 and so on. Why not directly 50 then 51,52,53,... ?? > > Should be someone who knows :) It's an artifact of the way the data structures get initialized at the daemon startup. I don't see any problem with it... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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