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Re:Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? by sedev on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @08:15PM (#2757219)
That's where I'm at with this. What Jarek describes can happen, but that's a failure case, not the normal-operation case. And as portrayed in the article, the engineers at Apple have accounted for the failure case, so all's well. They simply have made the very reasonable assumption that the DHCP server will normally be operational, not in a crisis state, and that it will honor its contracts as specified in the RFC. How hard is this?
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Re:Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? by jarek on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @08:48PM (#2757305)
There is that principle of "conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept" on which UNIX and half of the internet was built.
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