On my LAN I give addresses with a default lease life of 1 hour. Earlier, it was 8 hours and was working OK. When the no. of machines increased (230 machines: available dhcp addresses 200), I started getting "failed to get DHCP address" type messages. After setting lease life of 1 hour, I notice that there are a no. of machines shown in dhcpd.leases file, whereas the machines are actually switched off. I notice that such addresses are continuing in the dhcpd.leases file even after expiry of 1 hour time as also after restarting of dhcp. Can someone help me with a conf file such that: As soon as (or a 10 min delay) a machine is switched off, the IP address allocated to the machine is released from dhcpd.leases ----------- In a different problem, I find that a port on network switch (Intel) occasionally hangs -- no communication; The LED on the port flicks green and the cable continuity is OK, the client-machine connects OK from another port on the same switch. The Network Management SW shows everything fine on the switch. What can be the issue on the NW switch?? ---------- Anand Shankar ------------------------------------------------ The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-delhi
