Re: DHCP and UAP ?

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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