Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

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On 2023-08-23 09:18, Brett Lymn wrote:
> I have seen the opposite happen on a linux server where a vm I was
> constantly rebuilding would get a different IP despite the interface
> MAC being the same every time.
>
> As long as it doesn't double allocate it really shouldn't matter if
> dhpcd hands out the same address to something reappearing after the
> lease time has expired it.

No, it's not relevant unless you need for some reason (as I mentioned
in a previous message) that the same IP is used.

So, probably it's a matter of an internal policy of the DHCP server:
the one in NetBSD is different from the one in Linux. But, what
matters is that they can both fit to your needs.

Rocky