So, today I was attempting to replace dhcpleased with /sbin/dhclient
and long story short, I discovered that /sbin/dhclient has been nerfed
to just execl /sbin/dhcpleased. As documented the reason is you want
to smoke out whatever features people need from a dhcp client that
dhcpleased doesn't support. I'm writing to say that I'd be fine with
dhcpleased if I can set an option to ask the dhcp server for a
specific lease time. I know that the server need not honor my request
but the dhcp server that I'm using will honor a reasonable duration,
say a fraction of a day. The default lease length is 30 minutes.
I'm reading through the dhclient code now to see how it implements the
lease time option. If I'm capable, I'll send in a patch.
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I want to say thank you for all the improvements in OpenBSD over the
years. I just upgraded my firewall from OpenBSD 7.0 to 7.3 and the
improvements are awesome.
Thanks again!
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Chris
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Christopher Sean Hilton [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com]
