Configuring T1 & T2 Timers

[Shawn Routhier]

On 07/19/2011 13:29, Bruce Hudson wrote:
>>> Hi all.  Is there a way to configure the T1 and T2 values in dhcpd.conf?
>>>   If so, what is the syntax?
>
>> I believe those timers are built into the client, and are not part of
>> the DHCP lease. Therefore, I don't believe there is any way to configure
>> it. I've certainly never seen anything like this in the man pages.
>
>       From a fairly quick look at the code, the T1 and T2 timers can be set
> in the server and passed to the client via options 58 and 59. Earlier
> versions did not allow these to be set in the configuration. The server
> calculated them from the offered lease. This appears to have changed in
> (at least) the latest version; apparently for DCHPv6 support.
>
>      The options specify a number of seconds not so using them seems risky
> unless you set both min-lease-time and max-lease-time to the same value
> and do your own calculations.
> --
> Bruce A. Hudson				| Bruce.Hudson at Dal.CA

See the descriptions for dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time
in common/dhcp-options.5.  These are user-configurable in 4.2.

As Bruce mentions you will want to make sure they make sense with the
lease time.

Shawn