From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 27 21:29:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B51C14C19 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20556; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3776FA34.D0848FA1@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:29:40 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John C. Place" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP Renew lease problem (FreeBSD 3.2R client, NT server) References: <19990626214541.A17732@ctcdist.com> <19990627212730.A19443@ctcdist.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John C. Place" wrote: > Hey wait a minute... is not DHCP M$ baby?? How could they violate their own > standard?? (Please do not mis-read this I am being critical of M$). No it isn't. DHCP is an internet standard. Microsoft has their own implementation of it, and like most of their other stuff it doesn't closely follow the standard. > I changed dhclient not to go into a daemon and just exit after setting up the > interface and am excuting it from a cron job every 24 hours. The NT server > gives out 72hour leases. Is there some other "gotcha" by doing this?? No, that should be fine. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message