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From: us000528@interramp.com (Mike Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: bootp question
Date: 5 Aug 1995 02:26:16 GMT
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I am using bootpd to assign IP addresses to users who move their computers from 
one net to another.

The first time they log in, it works great.

Then the user logs out, and after some time the arp table looks like this:

joe.blow.com   123.123.123.123 at (incomplete)

The next time he trys to connect, bootp fails.

If I arp -d joe.blow.com, he can log in again.

Anybody know what's wrong??