Hi James.
Thanks for the reply.
I was thinking of timeout, retry, reboot (to minimize startup hangs),
initial-interval and link-timeout (the PROTOCOL TIMING section).
As I understand dhclient.conf(5), the man page deals with system wide
settings for these items but does not explain the per interface use (e.g.
in the 'EXAMPLES' section).
I expect to see something like:
interface wi0 {
timeout 10
retry 10
}
BTW, this is for wireless (dropping out).
In other words, lease extents (which I would define on the dhcp server)
probably won't help here.
Best wishes,
David
> I think what you're looking for is:
>
> *renew* *date*;
>
> *rebind* *date*;
>
> *expire* *date*;
> The *renew* statement defines the time at which the DHCP
> client
> should begin trying to contact its server to renew a lease
> that
> it is using. The *rebind* statement defines the time at
> which the
> DHCP client should begin to try to contact *any* DHCP server
> in or-
> der to renew its lease. The *expire* statement defines the
> time at
> which the DHCP client must stop using a lease if it has not
> been
> able to contact a server in order to renew it.
>
> These declarations are automatically set in leases acquired by the
> DHCP
> client, but must also be configured in predefined leases - a
> predefined
> lease whose expiry time has passed will not be used by the DHCP
> client.
>
> Dates are specified as follows:
>
> _*weekday*_ _*year*_/_*month*_/_*day*_
> _*hour*_:_*minute*_:_*second*_
>
> The weekday is present to make it easy for a human to tell when a
> lease
> expires - it's specified as a number from zero to six, with zero
> being
> Sunday. When declaring a predefined lease, it can always be
> specified as
> zero. The year is specified with the century, so it should generally
> be
> four digits except for really long leases. The month is specified as
> a
> number starting with 1 for January. The day of the month is likewise
> specified starting with 1. The hour is a number between 0 and 23,
> the
> minute a number between 0 and 59, and the second also a number
> between 0
> and 59.
>
>
>
> If you've got access to the dhcp server, you cn also change the
> dhcpd.conf:
>
> Also, given the domain they're in, these are probably test machines.
> If
> we wanted to test the DHCP leasing mechanism, we might set the lease
> timeout somewhat shorter than the default:
>
> max-lease-time 120;
> default-lease-time 120;
>
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2007 7:14 PM, David Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hiya.
>>
>> I have 2 interfaces (fxp0 and wi0) which get their ip's from dhcp. wi0,
>> being wireless, is prone to lose it's connection.
>> I want to change the timeout, etcetera for wi0 in dhclient.conf.
>> I can't see the information in dhclient.conf(5).
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> David
