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Old 05-15-2007
Sprellarinn Sprellarinn is offline
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This is in fact the way it is supposed to be. When the client shuts down it is supposed to release its ip address with dhcp release command to the server. Windows how ever ignors this behaviour (as well as many other things (",) ) and holds the IP address for the whole lease time.