From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 18 01:14:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22230 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 01:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22220 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 08:14:31 GMT (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA20294; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 01:14:27 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd020283; Sat Apr 18 01:14:23 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01302; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 01:14:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804180814.BAA01302@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DHCP client/server integration (import proposal) To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 08:14:20 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804171741.KAA06511@bubba.whistle.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Apr 17, 98 10:41:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 > > > > 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. You could use the one in David's cube. BTW: If 2^24 addresses have been given out, you have a bigger problem. You are probably going to melt your way to the earth's core from the thermal dissapation from all those machines on you local network. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message