On Sat Jun 21 14:17:08 2014, rafal@ztk-rp.eu wrote:
> W dniu 21.06.2014 00:24, Shawn Routhier via RT pisze:
> > Were there any other log messages about the lease?
> >
> > If your client is using a valid lease it should remember
> > that and do a renew or rebind which doesn't trigger a
> > ping check. If your client isn't using a valid lease it
> > shouldn't respond to the ping request.
> >
> If the logs are not yet recycled, I'll check that on monday. May be the
> actual sequence of msgs will tell you more.
>
> But as I remember it, the notebook did run for a while afrer rewakening
> from sllep with and old IP, then had it changed because setver did
> "abondon" the old IP.
>
> My impression is, that MAC of the notebook didn't change, so no matter
> what, the server should keep the same IP for the same MAC (if
> randomisation is not requested) e.g: "no matter what request was", and
> shold not ping at alll in such case... just to let live the "wrong
> clients", which don't know how to ask properly for renewal. The only
> concern is not to assign the same address twice, and this is ansured by
> comparing MACs. Right?

The IP could change if the server handed it out to a different client or
if the notebook changed subnets.  

I'll have to revisit the RFCs and think about this some more but it would
probably be best if the server allowed the client to use the address in
this case.

That said this doesn't seem to be a high priority item so I'm not sure
when we will address it.

>
> -R
>