[CentOS] dhcp lease-time

Thu Jan 5 13:07:33 UTC 2012
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it>

Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

> Also, there should be distinction between default and max lease time.
> DHCP server uses default lease time too force DHCP client to "chek-in"
> in that time period. If device does not respond, then DHCP server will
> reuse that IP.
> 
> Max lease time is used to allow DHCP client so the traffic is lesser and
> after that time DHCP client will ask for renewal of the IP.

When is the max lease time used, as a matter of interest?
Looking at /var/log/messages on my home server,
it seems each device is checked after half the default time,
ie every 5 minutes.


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