where does latest dhcp options store?

Chengyu Fan chengy.fan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 17:03:33 UTC 2012


Hi~
Thanks for the help.

I did as what you told me. When I restart the network service, I find the
new lease file appeared in the folder is dhclient-xxx...xxx-eth0.lease, I
don't know what the "xxx" means. (the xxx is a string contains digit, char
and -). Also I am wondering why the file name is not dhclient.leases.

Another question is that the file in '/var/lib/dhcp' seems not the result
of the config file '/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf', because I added one private
option in the config file, but it does not show in the leases file. If I
designated in the command line, the result leases file contains the private
option information.
By the way, I downloaded the DHCP source code and installed it.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Edward DeLargy <eddelargy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning,
>             Hope this helps:
>              The dhclient lease information should only be stored in the
> var/lib/dhclient folder. You should rm -rf * inside that folder to totally
> clear old info. Also, depending on your dhcp config you may find traces
> inside the network-scripts for the particular interface. A service network
> restart should clear anything out after you remove all old files. Those are
> the only two places I can think of that cache dhclient lease information.
> If you don't remove the old options eventually the old address could pop
> back in due to the TTL set in your primary dhcp.conf file.
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Chengyu Fan <chengy.fan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi~
>> Does anyone know that where does the latest dhcp options store?
>> I released the old lease using "dhclient -r", and then request a new
>> lease (I add a new option in the config file) using "dhclient ". The option
>> I mentioned is a private option numbered 246. According to the packets I
>> captured, the request and response is all OK, but I don't know where does
>> the dhclient store this option.
>>
>> I searched the file /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases, but it is not there...
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Chengyu Fan
>>
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Regards,
Chengyu Fan
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