From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 17:13:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6075416A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5E343D39 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 14FB155; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 20:13:40 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Pierrick Brossin References: <20031231224849.17b6632e.pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Jan 2004 20:13:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031231224849.17b6632e.pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> Message-ID: <44smizup8c.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isc-dhcpd weird effect X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 01:13:41 -0000 Pierrick Brossin 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"