I am confused about DHCP

[Bill Davidsen]

Antonio M wrote:
> I have a small LAN with DHCP running on Fedora 9. I checked the active 
> leases: this is the list of active leases
> 1)I don't understand how IP address is connected to MAC address, i.e. if 
> a MAC has already an IP address, should a new lease be started with same 
> MAC address?? I see 5 IP's connected to same MAC address
> 2) How are  the IP adressess released?? I would expect 192.168.0.63 
> <http://192.168.0.63> after 192.168.0.62 <http://192.168.0.62> and so 
> on... (please note that 00:16:d4:dc:a7:08 sometimes is started by F9 and 
> sometimes by F10
> 
> 
> 200 IP addresses available, 6 allocated (3 %)
> 
Does this happen on all machines, or just on some? And what does 
"ifconfig -a" on the machines with multiple IP addresses show? Do you 
have multiple aliases configured?

I would have to go revisit the DHCP man pages and perhaps RFC to see 
what should be done if another request is made.

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