DHCP Lease Process

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Just to confirm.

A client with no origional lease sends the Request packet to the server but recieves a NACK from the server. Does the server then send a different Offer or does the client receive the NACK and then start the whole lease process over with Discover(think its this one)?

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No the server wouldn't be able to respond with a different offer if the client had no original lease yet had received a NACK. That would usually indicate that the server has no available addresses to lease out - meaning the client would fail over to APIPA for five minutes and then try again.

 

Ok it just clicked in my head i got mixed up between renewing a lease and receiving a NACK as opposed to a machine with no origional ip address to begin with and receiving a NACK.