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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I never thought of this scenario Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 08:35:32 +0100 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 19 Message-ID: <uv06o4$3c5fm$2@dont-email.me> References: <uutq04$2n9pt$1@dont-email.me> <07WdnchvLrr2GI_7nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> <uuu39t$2pd0s$1@dont-email.me> <uuvblp$32mbm$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:35:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="539fd89de373294991652ff7019fc9c9"; logging-data="3544566"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ik6rFLcQFzq7M7vjH/hZRrVDXxWuY2j4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:BGInWWc6kep0uzF0Wp+zohURtOg= In-Reply-To: <uuvblp$32mbm$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1762 On 08/04/2024 00:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 13:24:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 07/04/2024 12:37, Robert Heller wrote: >>> >>> I believe that the DHCP server process does >>> something like an "arp" before it assigns leaases. >> >> I think it may in fact do a *ping*. > > You want it to do an ARP, not a ping. Ping is routable, ARP is not. What I want to do is not in question, What is (apparently) generally accepted practice, is. -- "In our post-modern world, climate science is not powerful because it is true: it is true because it is powerful." Lucas Bergkamp