Addressing APIPA/IPv4LL issues with uamanyip

[Murray Long]

Ok, thanks, I'll stop worrying then..

But it does seem strange to me that future DHCP requests will reissue an old
address used though anyip.  Is there any reason for this?

-Murray

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Murray Long wrote:
>
> > Hi Gunter,
> > Thanks for the patch.
> >
> > Have done some testing myself and found that the same problem applies if
> > a user arrives at a hotspot with a static IP and no gateway.
> > If, on finding he can connect, he tries to connect though DHCP he will
> > be given his origional IP without any gateway.
> > And so won't be able to connect until the router is rebooted.
> >
> > With this in mind, would it not be better for your patch to test for all
> > IP's outside of the DHCP dynamic ip range rather than just those in the
> > IPv4LL subnet?
> >
> No, and this is the one and only case where uamanyip fails. You see, if
> you ignore all IP's outside the dynamic dhcp range you might as well not use
> uamanyip as it then wouldn't serve any purpose whatsoever.
>
> But I doubt this is any cause for concern and is a highly unlikely case
> anyways. Somebody who arrives at a hotspot with a static ip and no gateway
> likely has never used the Internet before and doesn't use the Internet where
> he comes from because without a default gateway it's impossible for ANY
> client ANYWHERE to connect to the Internet. So chances are you're dealing
> with somebody who doesn't know how to use the Internet and probably wouldn't
> want to use it in the first place. You see, I doubt you'll ever encounter
> such a case.
>
> Gunther
>
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