Hello, I was recently forced to reboot my RH6.0 system during what turned out to be a period when the local Roadrunner DHCP server was down. At that point I couldn't get Linux back up again with network services and I had to wait about eight hours for the cable folks to fix their machine. (pump 0.7.0-1) My machine is dual-boot with Windows 98 and during this time, W98 worked perfectly. I suspect, therefore, that W98 has cached the DHCP information and as long as the lease hasn't expired they go ahead and use it even if the DHCP server is down. I suggest that this behavior would be the right thing for pump. Barring that, a way to recall the last DHCP information and force its use would have saved several hours of frustration. Thanks, Christopher Moore cmoore.edu
The requested behaviour can cause problems. e.g. Certain Somebody brings their laptop to work from home, boots Windows up, and gets LARTed by sysadmins shortly thereafter because the laptop is using its home-acquired DHCP address on the corporate network. Needless to say, I was not pleased with the Windows behaviour, and not only does the present pump behaviour prevent this problem, it is also much more "correct" (you're not supposed to use an IP without a lease for it). So, closing this very old bug.