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List:       linux-admin
Subject:    Re: DHCP and UAP ?
From:       Glynn Clements <glynn () gclements ! plus ! com>
Date:       2006-10-17 11:31:14
Message-ID: 17716.48898.680748.292595 () cerise ! gclements ! plus ! com
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Mark Bartelt wrote:

> PS:  The more I think about this, though, the more confused
> I am about how it would work.  If a DHCP server were told to
> prevent allocation from an address pool to clients which had
> not yet authenticated, how could those clients even connect
> to the specified authentication URLs, if they haven't gotten
> an IP address yet?
> 
> I _must_ be missing something obvious here ...

Presumably, you have a pool for unauthenticated clients. At boot, the
client gets an address from this pool, uses it to authenticate, then
requests a new address from the authenticated-clients pool.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
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