[NTLUG:Discuss] interpreting dhcpc info.

[Paul Drew]

This looks to me to be your dhcp lease configuration information. I would 
guess that this time is in seconds. The problem with that assumption is that 
equates to about 19884 days for lease time. That could be that random long 
number which constitures as its definition of Infinite lease.

Lease Time would seem to be your time the IP is leased to you. Renewal Time 
would be when it will first attempt to renew that lease from the originating 
DHCP server. Which is 50% of the lease time by default. The rebind time is 
87.5% of your lease time has expired, and it is now looking for a new server 
to give you a new IP address to rebind too.

This sounds to me like you have got that IP for a while. I hope that this 
helps you some. Have a great weekend, and take care.

Paul Drew

>From: "Richard Geoffrion" <ntlug at rain4us.net>
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] interpreting dhcpc info.
>Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:30:00 -0600
>
>[snipet from /etc/dhcpc/dhcp-eth0.info]
>LEASETIME=4294967295
>RENEWALTIME=2147483647
>REBINDTIME=3758096383
>[/snipet]
>
>what format am I looking at here..and how to I interpret/convert this??
>
>-Richard
>
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