5 Jan
2012
5 Jan
'12
9:54 a.m.
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Why is the default lease-time set to only 10 minutes (600 seconds) in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf (CentOS-6.2) as distributed?
I assume the dull answer is: because that's what Redhat set it to.
Why is not set to a much longer time?
What length do you think the correct default should be?
Is there any disadvantage in doing that? Or conversely, is a short lease-time safer in some way?
Short lease times work better with very transient devices, since the IP address is returned to the pool much faster when a machine disconnects but doesn't release the DHCP lease.
jh