20 minute leases

[Gregory Sloop]

This sounds like a fail-over setup, where clients get the MCLT time for the initial lease and then the full lease value after a renewal. This is so that the fail-over servers can communicate and properly handle the client.

[Glenn had a great post I found that explains more about fail-over, MCLT and initial lease times.]

https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2015-February/018578.html 

HTH

-Greg



 
   Hopefully a quick question. We migrated some sites from a few old DHCP servers running 4.1.1 to some not as old servers running 4.2.5.  The users with laptops began complaining about sporadic loss of IP connectivity.  They noticed they were getting 20 minutes leases instead of 24 hour leases.  I watched the traffic and it seems all initial leases to unknown MAC addresses get a 20 minute lease and on renewal get the 24 hour lease.  This is not a complaint, I like the idea of a trial lease.  I just want to verify that the 4.1.1 version did not have this behavior without having to recreate that environment.  I?d like to explain the behaviour to my users with a degree of confidence.
 
Don Friesen
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