Dhclient makes system unresponsive with very short leases

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed May 6 14:22:53 UTC 2009


Simon Matter wrote:

>Steps to Reproduce:
>1. Configure a dhcp server with 'dhcp-lease-time 2'
>2. Start 'dhclient' on a client

That's a seriously stupid setting, so if you are seeing that on a 
real network, then it's being run by pillocks !
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