DHCP failover - lease time it's always MCLT

[Chris Buxton]

On Jun 29, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Gero Palacio <gero.palacio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi There,
> 
> 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 (DHCP Failover Protocol Draft IEFT <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-failover-12%20and>) 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.
> 
> 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?

Gero,

Are you saying the initial lease is set to MCLT, or that the lease is renewed at that duration as well?

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.

Chris Buxton
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