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Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?

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354 points timdoug | 1 comments | 12 Jul 11 17:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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hardtke ◴[12 Jul 11 17:21 UTC] No.2755522[source]▶
I've sat in many a meeting where the Macs "steal" all of the DHCP connections and I'm stuck watching the speaker instead of following TweetDeck.
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1. bradleyland ◴[12 Jul 11 20:20 UTC] No.2756354[source]▶
I'd like to understand this better. I don't understand what you mean by "steal DHCP connections." Do you mean they use up all of the available DHCP leases? Have you verified this assertion?

I've never observed the behavior you're talking about, and frankly, I suspect that you're just attributing some network failure to a Mac user that just happens to be present.