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Subject: Re: force lease renewal from dhcpd
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On 02 May 2006 09:59:04 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> "fbsd" <fbsd@a1poweruser.com> writes:
>
> > Is there some way to force all leases under dhcpd to perform lease
> > renewal routine?
>
> Even if the dhcpd implements INFORM, most clients won't.
>
> In practice, if you want the clients to update before their existing
> lease is due for renewal, you generally have to go around to the
> clients individually.

Or plan ahead. If you know you will be changing some lease options you
should set the lease time down to something small at least
$(current_lease_period) seconds ahead of time. Then you can be fairly
certain that all systems will get a new lease within
$(new_lease_period) seconds of you change. Afterwards you can increase
the lease period back up. Of course, this assumes you were not handing
out "infinite" lease periods.

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