On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > When I restart the dhcp server all machines lose connectivity and need to > > grab another lease. Is there any way to prevent this? > > what are your values for default-lease-time and max-lease-time? i use > > default-lease-time 600; > max-lease-time 7200;
I am also using those default values. The problem does not arise when the dhcp server goes down, but when it comes back up. Some machines end up with a new IP and existing connections die. Like ssh connections. :( > from man dhcpd.conf: > > "The default-lease-time statement > > default-lease-time time; > > Time should be the length in seconds that will be assigned > to a lease if the client requesting the lease does not ask > for a specific expiration time. > > The max-lease-time statement > > max-lease-time time; > > Time should be the maximum length in seconds that will be > assigned to a lease if the client requesting the lease > asks for a specific expiration time."
