On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:04, Adam Hewitt wrote: > I am not taking my laptop off the network,
..and.. > its just going to sleep and losing the lease everytime. These two statements are contradictory, because a sleeping computer is not on the network. > When it wakes up it takes about 30 > seconds before I get the lease renewed. Sounds pretty reasonable. > Its also not another machine > taking the IP because a) I am using it at work and this would mean that > someone is getting a new lease everytime my laptop goes to sleep, and b) > The leases have a lifetime of 3 weeks... Well that all depends... DHCP is dynamic. The server could release the lease if your Macintosh announces to the server that it doesn't need the lease anymore - which is what a good network citizen AFAIK should do... Just because the database doesn't change, or no-one else takes up the free address - even if the IP address is hard-wired to the MAC address, doesn't mean that the lease has been released... Now, if you can convince your admin to give you a permanently leased address, then you could change your address to fixed, but that would defeat the purpose of using DHCP. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18" - E128:45'05" (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
