[En-Nut-Discussion] Network Link state on at91_emac and others

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Henrik Maier <hmlists at focus-sw.com> wrote:
> Maybe the unplug behaviour is different if DHCP is enabled or not?
>
> With DHCP we are likely to get a new IP address and this prevents the
> existing sockets to communicate after link has been restored.
>

PC's usually add to the DHCP request their prefered IP address (the
last one), so the server assigns it again if it's still available.
Otherwise it get's changed.