dhcpcd-discuss

Re: dhcpcd send out Discover message even if link local address is assumed

Roy Marples

Thu Jul 05 10:20:11 2012

Hi Xia

On 05/07/2012 6:47, Xia Weizhong wrote:
Logs as below. And I think we did not get this behavior when we first
request for a link local address.

I checked the code, did not find out how this could happen. And is
this something deliberately done? a feature or a bug?

This is deliberately done.
If the network admin decides he wants to install a DHCP server, dhcpcd will start using it automatically.

Thanks

Roy

References:
dhcpcd send out Discover message even if link local address is assumedXia Weizhong
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