Subject: Re: Upon DHCPRELEASE, client starts at INIT-REBOOT or INIT state?

From: Ralph Droms <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:22:34 -0500 (EST)

At 2:52 PM -0500 12/14/98, Greg Padden wrote:
>After reading RFC 2131 it was unclear to me of the behavior of the client
>software after the client has issued a DHCPRELEASE?
>
>Will it start at the INIT-REBOOT or the INIT state?

The client should start in INIT state after a DHCPRELEASE.  I had a brief
conversation with Apple about their client behavior and they will fix the
client to fo to INIT state after a DHCPRELEASE.

- Ralph