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[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 18 October 2007, Kenny Kant wrote:
> Very interesting thread, but I am curious about DHCP and its use of
> ICMP/Pinging.  I have never heard of this being used when describing the
> function of DHCP, could you explain further?  What component of the dhcp
> model performs the pings?  I have always thought this was the role of
> the database maintained by the dhcp server itself.  If your statement
> were correct I think we would have many networks fooked as I have seen
> many DHCP enabled networks in conjunction with about 3/4 of the hosts on
> that segment running Windows Software Firewalls all of which are denying
> receipt of ICMP echo requests.

I don't think DHCP servers are required to maintain databases.
Either way, there is probably not a database entry for a server that doesn't 
get its address via DHCP. Also the case when there are multiple DHCP servers 
operating independently.