I am confused about DHCP

[Timothy Murphy]

Antonio M wrote:

> I have a small LAN with DHCP running on Fedora 9. I checked the active
> leases: this is the list of active leases
> 1)I don't understand how IP address is connected to MAC address, i.e. if a
> MAC has already an IP address, should a new lease be started with same MAC
> address?? I see 5 IP's connected to same MAC address
> 2) How are  the IP adressess released?? I would expect 192.168.0.63 after
> 192.168.0.62 and so on... (please note that 00:16:d4:dc:a7:08 sometimes is
> started by F9 and sometimes by F10

What does your /etc/dhcp.conf look like, as a matter of interest?