Hi Raj,

Change the time in seconds in /etc/dhcpd.conf

default-lease-time 60000;   *** 17 days ***
max-lease-time 72000;   *** 20 days ***

Hope this helps.

Regards

Rajesh


At 22:59 10/09/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I have RH 6.2. My campus network requires me to use DHCP. So i have
configured the network accordingly on the machine. Everything works as such
well on the pc. I have 2 queries.
>
>1. I want to know what client I have - dhcpcd or dhclient. which one does
RH 6.2 come by default.
>
>2. How do I change the Lease time that the client requests for at the boot
process. Apparantly right now it is very less. As a result each time I boot
the machine I have a diff IP. I want to somehow try to get back the same
IP. Can anyone advise how to do the same.
>Apparantly when i boot from windows it tries to reserve the IP for 30
days.I want to do the same for linux.
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>Raj :)

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