DHCP Failover cluster uses MCLT value as lease time

Steven Carr sjcarr at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 10:59:04 UTC 2015


On 16 February 2015 at 09:26, Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Gordon Grubert <gordon.grubert+lists at uni-greifswald.de> wrote:
>
>> Is this is bug or a feature?
>
> AIUI it's a feature.

It's how the DHCP Failover protocol works, it gives out an MCLT lease
the first time a client gets a lease from the failover pair, that then
allows the peers to sync their leases databases in the background and
when the client renews it will get it's full 24h lease.

Steve


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