Re: I never thought of this scenario

On 09/04/2024 12:30, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-04-09 01:30, Grant Taylor wrote:

On 4/8/24 03:19, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

"With conflict detection enabled, the DHCP Server will ping the IP address it wants to grant a lease for to make sure no other computers are using that IP address. If the ping request receives a reply, the server will mark the IP as BAD_ADDRESS. If no response is received, the server will assign the IP address to the requesting client...."

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This usually works well enough.  But it breaks down when the system using the IP the DHCP server is ping testing refuses to send echo reply responses to the ping.

 If that happens, they deserve the breakage that will happen :-P
 

If the client does an ARP and gets a clash, then it should refuse the DHCP offer.
I am not sure if the server issues an alternative or not.
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