dhcpd.leases question

Glenn Satchell glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au
Tue Jun 5 13:10:17 UTC 2012


On 06/05/12 22:26, Nicolás Valera wrote:
> Hi, sorry about my ignorance but, what does it means "rewind binding
> state free;" in dhcpd.leses file?
> Thanks in advance!
> Nix.

Hi Nicolás

The dhcpd.leases man age describes the format of the leases file.

      binding state state; next binding state state;

      The binding state statement  declares  the  lease's  binding
      state.   When  the  DHCP server is not configured to use the
      failover protocol, a lease's binding state  will  be  either
      active or free.   The failover protocol adds some additional
      transitional states, as well  as  the  backup  state,  which
      indicates  that the lease is available for allocation by the
      failover secondary.

A binding state of "active" means there is a client using this 
particular lease now.

A state of "free" means there is no client using this lease at the 
moment and it is available to be given out by the server.

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-glenn
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