what is the subtil difference between max-lease-time and default-lease-time ?

[Sébastien CRAMATTE]

Many thanks for your answer
Now it's clear like water ...;)

And what about state ? When  dhcp lease change of state ?  I mean that 
In my dhcpd.leases file I can see only actives leases ...
But normaly If a lease has expired should appear as "free" state ? isn't 
it ?

Regards



Karl Auer a écrit :
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 13:07 +0200, Sébastien CRAMATTE wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone could explain me what is the subtil difference between  
>> max-lease-time and default-lease-time ?
>> To test purpose I've put the same value for  twice in my "dhcpd.conf"
>>     
>
> The max-lease-time is the maximum lease time that you will get. If you
> ask for (say) 10000 seconds and the maximum lease time is (say) 6000
> seconds, then you will get a lease time of 6000 seconds.
>
> The default lease time is the lease time you will get if you don't
> request any particular lease time. Generally you set the default lease
> time to the lease time you would like everyone to use, and the maximum
> lease time to the highest lease time you are prepared to accept. It's
> perfectly acceptable to have them configured the same.
>
>   
>> My problem is that I don't understand why state is always active and  
>> why starts time of the current lease is inferior to  ends  time of the 
>> previous ?
>>     
>
> Leases are renewed way ahead of their actual expiry - usually after
> about half the lease time has expired. So if your lease is 10000
> seconds, the client will generally start trying to renew it after about
> 5000 seconds. If it succeeds, the new lease time will have a start time
> way earlier than the previous lease' end time.
>
> Regards, K.
>
>