From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 17 10:41:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08167 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08145 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:41:53 GMT (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA23212; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma023208; Fri Apr 17 10:41:02 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA06511; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:41:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199804171741.KAA06511@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: DHCP client/server integration (import proposal) In-Reply-To: <199804170543.WAA00853@usr07.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Apr 17, 98 05:43:34 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: > > > But this brings up another question: If the DHCP client only gets NAK > > > responses should it still allocate a 10/8 address for itself, or should it > > > take this to mean that it shouldn't be using the network at all? > > > > Good question.. this should only happen if all the addresses are > > used up. I'd say it shouldn't be using the network at all... but > > try again later. Talking on 10/8 is probably not going to help anything. > > This is irrelevent. Windows 98 will do this. I'm not so sure.. getting a NAK is different from not getting any response at all. We should find a win98 client and try it. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message