Hi! Faced with the issue of not responding to DHCPNAK from another server, I then compared the behavior between busybox udhcp client and isc dhclient when receiving DHCPNAK. And behaviors are different. Your client checks for server_id matching, this check was introduced for the fix, Bug 4267. But in isc dhclient there is no check for server_id and it seems to me correct, because in rfc2131 I did not find requirements for matching server_id in the request for the client, but I found the following text: --------------- RFC 2131 [Page 17] If the client receives a DHCPNAK message, the client restarts the configuration process. --------------- Here is another piece of text from rfc2131, which I believe points to the key moment of using server_id in the client: --------------- RFC 2131 [Page 23] DHCP clients MUST use the IP address provided in the 'server identifier' option for any unicast requests to the DHCP server. --------------- this is also consistent with rfc2132: --------------- RFC 2132 [Page 27] DHCP clients use the contents of the 'server identifier' field as the destination address for any DHCP messages unicast to the DHCP server. ---------------