dhcpcd-discuss

Re: Detecting duplicate address (ipv4)

Roy Marples

Mon Jun 20 16:19:15 2016

Hi

On 20/06/2016 17:13, Shahid Mahmood wrote:
> Hi
> How is duplicate address handled by dhcpcd?
> e.g
> 1) dhcpcd sends arp probe after getting an address from dhcp server and
> finds that this address is duplicate.
> 
> 2) dhcpcd has acquired and assigned an address but later some other host
> tries to claim it and sends arp probes.
> 
> How can we detect the above conditions? (in hook script or otherwise).

Currently these events are not sent to the hook script directly.
2) is only triggered if it's an extended last lease and even then it's
just given the EXPIRE reason.

Roy

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