Changing leaseperiod

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Jul 25 09:05:52 UTC 2006


<andre.stoekenbroek at kpn.com> wrote:

>Question about DHCP server.
>
>We wonder if changing the leaseperiod in the configuration has any 
>effect of all the leases that are already present in the leaseDB?

No, none whatsoever.

>Because if that is the case all renewals of the clients can be 
>disturbed. We expect that for a renewal only the new leaseperiod 
>will be set to the client.

You expect correctly, any change you make to lease times (or anything 
else) will only have an effect when a client next renews.

Simon


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