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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: I never thought of this scenario
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 10:45:39 +0100
Organization: A little, after lunch
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I decided on a quiet breezy Sunday morning, to upgrade my routers 
firmware. Which required  a router reboot.

So it lost all its DHCP tables.

However apart from 10 seconds of internet outage, the rest of the 
network carried on nicely (nothing uses the router's wifi, as it's in a 
remote space).

I then restarted a piece of kit I am working on, and it popped up in the 
first available DHCP slot.

My question is, if that had already been occupied by another piece of 
kit, would I have ended up with an IP address clash?

It seems to me that checking for conflicts only happens at lease start 
or lease renewal times?

Or does that imply that the router did check the ip address first before 
allocating the IP?

-- 
Canada is all right really, though not for the whole weekend.

"Saki"