Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Query on DHCP transactions

From: Kok-Yong Tan <ktan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:34:19 -0500
Before hubbing out and firing up Wireshark, I got curious about something while watching a log of DHCP transactions between a DHCP server and client: Is it normal after the client has already obtained an address, to see continuous attempts by the DHCP server to send packets to 255.255.255.255:68 on the DHCP client if the DHCP client is no longer asking for an address in a switched network?

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