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What? IME Apple devices are extremely polite about refusing/deactivating IP addresses that are already in use.
by craigyk 12y ago
What? IME Apple devices are extremely polite about refusing/deactivating IP addresses that are already in use.
- ams6110 12y agoMy experience is I get home, open my laptop, and it seems to by default assume it has the same IP as last time it was on my home network. Meanwhile my kid's 2DS game is using that IP, and I have a few minutes of chaos. I just assign fixed IPs to all the regularly connected devices and I don't encounter that.
- rsynnott 12y agoAre you sure this isn't a router problem? A number of routers have an issue where they occasionally drop their table of DHCP allocations and just start again; this mostly only manifests when a new device connects.
- fpgeek 12y agoYou may have been lucky, but I'd suggest looking at http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do There's been plenty of debate about whether this rapid DHCP behavior is desirable (e.g. Is the improvement in user experience worth the potential for conflicts and/or other issues on networks not expecting this?), but, either way, I don't see how that behavior can be fairly characterized as polite.