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From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:56:10 +0100
To: "Tiarnan O'Corrain" <ocorrain@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Wireless networking with DHCP "tickets"
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On Feb 26, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:

> According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends
> some kind of a keep-alive ticket to the client every 2 minutes, and
> if the client does not respond, the lease is revoked.
>
> This functionality seems to rely on some non-standard features of the
>
This is rather normal; and unless you have some firewall set up too 
strict
works just fine with macosx/freebsds normal dhclient. See RFC3202 (the
newer force-renew) and RENEWING/REBINDING in rfc 2131.

Dw