Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:58:10 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Aaron <security@adtu.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] Re: dhcp lease timing Quest Message-ID: <3E3A8F02.5080502@potentialtech.com> References: <008201c2c933$f02d2240$cea8a8c0@iowaone.net>
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Aaron wrote: > Hello guys and gals, > > I'm wondering why my local DSL ISP seems to think the dhcp lease time should > have a frequency of 2 minutes...? > Isn't this a rather large waste of bandwidth and unnecessary? > My logs are full of dhcp requests and acks... > I know I can filter all the dhcp requests, but I'm more curious what this > admin is thinking. They're probably thinking that their network will consist of a lot of unstable Windows machines that will fail to release their IP when they crash, thus eating up all the addresses and causing network problems for others. Or they might not be thinking at all, and that's just the default value for the DHCP server they installed. I wouldn't get excited over it. DHCP traffic is really pretty minimal, even when it's frequent. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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