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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: I never thought of this scenario
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 13:30:22 +0200
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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...."
> 
> 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

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.