On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 13:52 -0500, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) wrote: > I understand the need for multiple lease files, based on network. > > My concern was the two different directories being used. I was trying to > solve a network problem, and couldn't understand why my lease files were > several months old... Then I discovered that NM was putting lease files > somewhere else. > > Persistence across boots would require some cooperation with the DHCP server, > which, in my case, may give me a new IP each time I boot. (It's some 3rd > party, Windows based DHCP/DNS "solution", which I don't manage)
Moved back to /var/lib/dhclient/ in r4267. Dan > - Jon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue 11/4/2008 1:41 PM > To: Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) > Cc: networkmanager-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: location of DHCP lease files > > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 11:47 -0500, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I've noticed that the native Fedora "ifup-eth" script puts its lease files > > into > > > > /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-${DEVICE}.leases > > > > but, NetworkManager puts the lease files into > > > > /var/run/dhclient-${DEVICE}.lease > > Correct. NM uses different lease files because in the near future, > we'll want to use separate lease files for _each connection_. Since > many machines move around, it's pretty pointless to use the same lease > file for your home AP as for your work AP. > > What happens right now is that you'll get a lease from work, dhclient > will cache it, and then when you come home it'll try to renew that work > lease at home, leading to DHCP lag. That's bad. > > So even if the lease files _did_ stay in the same place as dhclient puts > them, you'd have a lot more lease files anyway. But, once we modify NM > to handle leasefile-per-connection, we should probably move them back > to /var/lib/dhclient just to they are persistent. > > I assume you're worried about persistence of the lease across boots? > > Dan > > > > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
