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The article isn't very good. Things like Princeton said the iPad causes DHCP client malfunctions are nonsensical. There is not a clue in the article as to t
by Confusion 17y ago
The article isn't very good. Things like
Princeton said the iPad causes DHCP client malfunctions
are nonsensical. There is not a clue in the article as to the real problem. I suppose the iPad could be very agressive in its attempts to obtain a DHCP address and cause DHCP server problems, but other than that...?
- jarek 17y agoTechnically speaking the quoted sentence fragment might be correct: other machines on the network are DHCP clients, and an IP address collision (caused by the iPad's DHCP fail) can lead to them behaving in a way that would be described as a malfunction. That being said, yeah. Not very good. It's a mainstream media article, we'd be waiting for a long while if we wanted them to make sense of technology beyond "ooh, shiny."
- fhars 17y agoThe problem is that it keeps using an IP address after the lease has run out and the address may have been given out to another device. The difference between universities that see this problem and those that don't is probably that the latter assign the addresses for WLAN clients from a large pool (try 10.0.0.0/8) that allows them to keep the association between mac address and IP address for the whole term or even longer.
- jimfl 17y agoFrom my understanding, the iPad continues to use the IP address after the DHCP lease is expired, which could cause other clients assigned that address to be confused.