Lease file questions
Ryan McCain
Ryan.McCain at dss.state.la.us
Fri Nov 16 18:25:27 UTC 2007
>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:26 AM, in message
<a06240824c363820b2f87 at simon.thehobsons.co.uk>, Simon Hobson
<dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Ryan McCain wrote:
>
>>My lease times are set as the following:
>>
>>default-lease-time 86400;
>>max-lease-time 604800;
>>
>>In my leases file I see entries that are older than 7 days (604800 seconds):
>>
>>-SNIP-
>>lease 172.20.8.181 {
>> starts 2 2007/10/30 08:00:00;
>> ends 2 2007/10/30 08:02:00;
>> tstp 2 2007/10/30 08:02:00;
>> binding state free;
>> hardware token-ring 52:41:43:42:d9:01;
>> uid "\00042d901-RACcc7e02d940";
>> client-hostname "42d901-RACcc7e02d940";
>>}
>
>
>
>>..I am under the impression that only active leases should be in the
>>leases file. Am I missing something?
>
> Yes, the last state of every lease every issued is retained. This is
> so that should the client return to the network in the future, then
> it can be recognised and given it's old address if it hasn't been
> reused.
Is there a way I can view ONLY active leases?
>
>>Also, we don't have token ring on our network (at least we
>>shouldn't). Is there a reason some of the leases are reporting
>>token ring?
>
> Now that's an interesting question !
>
> Just a hunch, did this lease belong to some sort of remote access
> server (RAS) ? If so, then I'm guessing that for some reason it's
> faked the hardware type when requesting a lease on behalf of a
> client. Just a guess and it could be wrong !
No. All RAS connections are on a different scope. Any other ideas?
Thanks..
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