[PLUG] Re: Red Hat routing follies

[Felix Lee]

Russ Johnson <russj at dimstar.net>:
> I believe the dhcp server could leave without incident, unless one of
> the machines tries to get a new IP. 

but it becomes awkward to add a new machine to the network.  you
need to transfer all the state from the old dhcp server to a new
dhcp server, or else you have to force all the leases to expire
and request new ones from the new server, which might hand out
different ip addresses, which means any existing network
connections will get broken.
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