<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jun 29, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Gero Palacio <<a href="mailto:gero.palacio@gmail.com" class="">gero.palacio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi There,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm running a pair of DHCP servers in failover mode and the server that responds the DHCPREQUEST message *always* replies back with a lease time of MCLT. As I understand the protocol (<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-failover-12%20and" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank" class="">DHCP Failover Protocol Draft IEFT</a>) this should not be the case as both servers are in *normal* state. I've checked that in the dhcpd.leases file and using OMSHELL.<br class=""><br class="">MTCL is currently set to 5 seconds to troubleshoot the problem. Any idea what could be wrong? Is there any condition I'm missing where the lease time is set exclusively to MTCL?<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Gero,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you saying the initial lease is set to MCLT, or that the lease is renewed at that duration as well?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The initial lease duration will always be MCLT. Always. But after the first renewal, it should be set according to the default, min, and max values.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris Buxton</div></body></html>