On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Atkins, Dwane P <atki...@uthscsa.edu> wrote: > Thank you, Adam. We had the DHCP default lease time set to 4 hours and the > Maximum lease time was set to the default of 24 hours. So we lowered the > default lease to 2 hours and left the maximum lease at 24 hours. What this > tells me is that with the default lease, it will do another DHCP negotiation > at the ½ life or in this case an hour. The maximum lease time says that > 10.10.10.10 will only be allowed to lay claim to that lease for one day. Is > this a correct assumption? Should I lower the maximum lease time as well? >
Generally, unless you have an unusual circumstance, you'll want the maximum lease time to be closer to your default lease time as you typically don't want clients to get a much longer lease than your default. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
