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Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Wednesday, 4 de February de 2015 at 10:41, Cory Benfield wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 08:59:54, Kevin Benton wrote:
> > I proposed an alternative to adjusting the lease time early on the in
> > the thread. By specifying the renewal time (DHCP option 58), we can
> > have
> > the benefits of a long lease time (resiliency to long DHCP server
> > outages) while having a frequent renewal interval to check for IP
> > changes. I favored this approach because it only required a patch to
> > dnsmasq to allow that option to be set and patch to our agent to set
> > that option, both of which are pretty straight-forward.
> >  
>  
>  
> It's hard to see a downside to this proposal. Even if one of the other ideas goes forward as well, a short DHCP renewal interval feels like a very good idea to me.
>  
+1

I understand some dhcp-clients could ignore option 58, but yet, I understand
they will obey the longer lease time, without affecting they behavior.

So only who really needs it would take care of using fully compliant clients…

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