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Re:Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? by brk on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @04:06PM (#2756299)
Are you saying that the DHCP server pings (ICMP or ARP) each address and re-leases the ones that don't get a response?

The DHCP will ping an address before leasing it, and if it gets a response then it will not lease that address.

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Re:Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? by m_eiman on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @05:33AM (#2758379)
I don't think this is true at our office (running a Cisco DHCP server). We get conflicts when putting a device with a static IP in the dhcp range, and I'm almost sure that they respond to ping.
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