Shorter mclt times?
Bruce Hudson
Bruce.Hudson at Dal.Ca
Wed Jul 15 15:11:06 UTC 2009
> I'm sorry, but I am afraid I didn't follow your logic. If one of the
> DHCP servers is capable of handling all of the leases then why would a
> short MCLT cause any issues? If you had subnets with lease times of
> 15min a MCLT of 30min would cause problems if a subnet ran out of free
> leases.
With 15 minute leases normally, a 30 minute MCLT will not cause any
problems. You (potentially) get problems when the MCLT is much lower
than your lease time and you get a large number of clients that start
their leases around the same time. That senario, far more common than
yours I suspect, will increase the load on your server; perhaps past a
critical point.
You should always be able to lower the MCLT to your maximum lease
time without problems.
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