DHCP Failover and clients attempting to renew every 6 seconds.

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:01:33 -0600
>From: "Cory Meyer" <cory.meyer at gmail.com>
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: DHCP Failover and clients attempting to renew every 6 seconds.
>
>I'm running into an issue with my newly implemented DHCP Failover
>configuration on DHCP-3.0.5.  I've got a good number of clients
>attempting to renew their lease every 6 seconds.   Odd thing is that
>the default-lease-time is set to 7200 and the max-lease-time is set to
>14400.   I've verified with Tcpdump/dhcpdump that the DHCPACK does
>contain the correct lease time.
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks,
>
>Cory

You could try setting min-lease-time to a sensible value, but it does
sound like a client issue.

What type of clients are causing the problem? Are there any that do work?

regards,
-glenn