dhcpcd-discuss

Re: Re: Selecting a "better" offer from two DHCP servers

Juliusz Chroboczek

Thu Jun 30 14:20:33 2016

> Another interesting question is this: do we want to only have one
> primary lease or take the IPv6 autoconf approach and merge active offers?

I don't think you can accept multiple leases for a single request in
DHCPv4 (not sure about DHCPv6), since the broadcast REQUEST is used to
signal the other servers that they can release the temporarily allocated
lease.

-- Juliusz

References:
Re: Selecting a "better" offer from two DHCP serversShahid Mahmood
Re: Re: Selecting a "better" offer from two DHCP serversRoy Marples
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