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<span style=" font-family:'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">I have a number of stations and printers that are renewing their leases at intervals shorter than n/2 - where N is the lease time.<br>
[In this case, 14400s]<br>
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However if I look in dhcp.leases - the lease is written as 10m. <br>
Huh?<br>
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I'm running a fail-over pair.<br>
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mclt is 30m<br>
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default-lease-time 14400;<br>
max-lease-time 14400;<br>
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I can't seem to grok where the 10m lease time is coming from.<br>
Any ideas where to look?<br>
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[Oh, and yes, as far as I can tell, only some clients are so afflicted.]<br>
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Here's a excert of leases<br>
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lease 10.1.1.148 {<br>
starts 6 2017/10/07 00:03:39;<br>
ends 6 2017/10/07 00:13:39;<br>
tstp 6 2017/10/07 00:18:39;<br>
tsfp 6 2017/10/07 00:13:37;<br>
cltt 6 2017/10/07 00:03:39;<br>
binding state active;<br>
next binding state expired;<br>
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;<br>
set ddns-fwd-name = "some-stupidhost.somedom.com";<br>
set ddns-txt = "00 ... db";<br>
set ddns-rev-name = "148.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.";<br>
client-hostname "abc-hp-4200";<br>
}<br>
[Yeah, this is an HP printer/print-server, but some Windows clients do it too.]<br>
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Another random case is a Windows laptop.<br>
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It DOES get a 4h lease, but then makes DHCPREQUEST's at crazy intervals.<br>
Sometimes it's 90m, others 90s. [I can't find any consistency...]<br>
This is a wireless device, I believe, would it make a new request if it were dropped and re-connected to the network?<br>
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Nothing's "broken." Everything is getting leases as they should, but I'm trying to understand why.<br>
Mostly looking for a good methodology and reasoning to start running the oddities down.<br>
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TIA<br>
-Greg<br>
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