pings from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu

[Edward Glowacki]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I just noticed that I'm receiving periodic pings from
> dhcp1.cl.msu.edu on my machine at pfaffben.user.msu.edu:
> 
> Jan  7 19:56:07 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> Jan  7 19:59:26 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> Jan  7 20:04:01 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> Jan  7 20:06:00 pfaffben icmplogd: ping from dhcp1.cl.msu.edu [35.8.2.22]
> 
> I haven't seen, or at any rate noticed, this before.  Is this
> something new?  For what purpose?  (Perhaps to determine whether
> DHCP leases are actually in use?)
> 
> (I would ask consult@msu.edu but they are, in my experience,
> frequently wrong or simply uninformed, and slow to boot.  You
> guys are generally correct and answer quickly...)

IIRC DHCP pings an IP before assigning it.  Why it would ping 4x,
I don't know, unless you were requesting an IP a lot or something.

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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Network Services		
Michigan State University