From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 10 02:47:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C7A16A418 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D805113C4DD for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:47:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BF3856C1; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:47:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:47:05 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: XNIw8CB9YlkWYEBQbGO0A3FnEcRAUt3yEKwqutdWlQuf 1199933225 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5EA2CF00; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:47:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6F0098E3-34D5-4854-8EAA-6E1FFFF97F77@goldmark.org> From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <7E8E0248-9CA1-4EFB-BC4C-6381CC3CD13E@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:47:04 -0600 References: <7E8E0248-9CA1-4EFB-BC4C-6381CC3CD13E@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) Cc: User questions Subject: Re: Frequent DHCP requests from Wii X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:47:06 -0000 On Jan 9, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Do you have an entry like: > > default-lease-time 100000; > > ...in your dhcpd.conf? For the particular subnet, I've got this default-lease-time 14400; max-lease-time 172800; > That might help convince the Wii to keep hold of its lease for a > longer period of time without continuously renewing it every few > minutes. Unfortunately that doesn't help. But I thank you and others for this suggestion. I'll try setting min-lease-time (currently unset) to something like 1200 and see if that helps. > Otherwise, talk to Sega or whoever about their DHCP client... You and others have made the same comment. Even if Nintendo's DHCP client is obnoxious, I certainly have a greater chance of gaining a better understanding of what is going on by asking here than by approaching Nintendo. Basically what I wanted to know is whether what I'm seeing is anything to worry about. The answer is "apparently not". Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/