Fwd: Rapid DHCP

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 30.07.11 10:31, Genes MailLists (lists at sapience.com) wrote:

> >> http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do
> >
> 
>  Hmm ... the complaint of changing IP does not seem to make sense - as I
> read the article - the MAC simply remembers server info and instead of a
> blind dhcp (which causes delays if you are now on a new network as the
> dhcp server will not NAK a network for which is not authoritative), it
> ARP's the remembered server first which is very fast - hard to see how
> this would cause problems (shy of bugs of course)...

IIRC connman (i.e. NM's competition) can do the ARP magic, too.

Lennart

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