udhcpc general questions

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 13:53, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > If I can't negotiate a lease, does udhcpc automatically
>  > support ZCIP? 
> 
> no.
> 
>  > If not, I think I'll start udhcpc and zcip both
>  > at the same time and write scripts to get the lease or the
>  > zcip address.
> 
> we start zcip after a dhcp lease failure.  and, following the advice
> of someone on this list, we start zcip on an alias interface.  this
> way when dhcp comes back, any zcip sessions can remain up.

I hava an impression that theoretically zcip and dhcp are ortogonal.
You can have both running, it's a valid network configuration.
Yes you will have two addresses configured on the interface.

zcip is not officially a "fallback" for dhcp, it's only used that way
in Windows.
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