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Hi,<br />
So in the MS 2000 DHCP mechanism, I was under the impression that the client performed some sort of ping to it's own address once it received an IP to ensure that it received a valid IP address from the server, but what I appear to be seeing in my ethereal traces is that the DHCP server is pinging the IP address between the DHCP Discover and the DHCP offer, and not the client doing this post-DHCP ACK; and I'm wondering if this is normal for MS DHCP, or if maybe it's because the client is rebinding to a new server and if this behavior is due to that. Or if I'm completely misreading the traces, please let me know.<br />
Thanks in advance,<br />
-Pj
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Hi,
So in the MS 2000 DHCP mechanism, I was under the impression that the client performed some sort of ping to it's own address once it received an IP to ensure that it received a valid IP address from the server, but what I appear to be seeing in my ethereal traces is that the DHCP server is pinging the IP address between the DHCP Discover and the DHCP offer, and not the client doing this post-DHCP ACK; and I'm wondering if this is normal for MS DHCP, or if maybe it's because the client is rebinding to a new server and if this behavior is due to that. Or if I'm completely misreading the traces, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
-Pj

Microsoft DHCP rebind process

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