John Summerfield wrote: > For PXE I might give a short lease, it's only going to run for a few > seconds, and Anaconda maybe an hour or so. > > I do give different answers, depending on who's asking. How do you change the lease-time for different machines? I'm puzzled by the different lease-times I get on different laptops, connecting to the same desktop. The laptop I'm on now gets about 30 minutes: -------------------------------- Jan 30 13:53:18 mary dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 192.168.2.1 port 67 Jan 30 13:53:18 mary dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1 Jan 30 13:53:18 mary dhclient: bound to 192.168.2.19 -- renewal in 1687 seconds. -------------------------------- Another laptop gets about 3 hours: -------------------------------- Jan 7 14:36:11 carrie dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.2.1 port 67 Jan 7 14:36:11 carrie dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1 Jan 7 14:36:11 carrie dhclient: bound to 192.168.2.4 -- renewal in 9591 seconds. -------------------------------- Who or what exactly decides on these lease-times? The entries for the 2 laptops in /etc/dhcpd.conf on the desktop are identical: -------------------------------- host carrie { hardware ethernet 00:15:00:16:2A:EA; fixed-address 192.168.2.4; } host mary { hardware ethernet 00:02:2D:21:03:B1; fixed-address 192.168.2.19; } -------------------------------- The only difference I see is that mary is running Fedora-8 while carrie is running Fedora-7. Any elucidation gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list