Bill Moseley, 2002-Dec-29 10:44 -0800: > > Running a few dhcp clients ends up generating a lot of DHCPREQUEST > messages. I'm not clear how to set the interval that the client sends > those requests. I looked at man dhclient.conf but didn't see the > setting. I tried setting a "retry" but that was not it. > > In my server I've got > > default-lease-time 600; > > but the DHCPREQEST messages are sent from the client every five minutes so > I think that's not it either. > > Anyone know what setting to adjust?
The default lease time is in seconds, so 600 is 5 minutes. That's why the clients make a new request every 5 minutes. Change that number to something larger and the requests will match that time. I use 32400, which is 9 hours. > I wouldn't mind removing the messages -- It's an internal LAN so I don't > really care about the clients renewing. Is there a way with syslog.conf > to complete remove them if I wanted to? There's no way in syslog, but if you use syslog-ng, you can filter out those messages and send them to their own log file or not log them at all. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
