Yes, that is what it does. But it doesn't do a broadcast - it attempts a renewal with the original issuing DHCP server at those points.
-Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com <http://www.rolandschorr.com/> http://www.officeforlawyers.com <http://www.officeforlawyers.com/onenote.htm> Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP 80-20 rule My memory says: It retries at 50 percent of the original. If it does not get a renewal ACK then it retries at 50 percent of that 50 percent (25 percent of the original), then at 50 percent of that (12.5 of the original)...... Soon someone will set us both straight J From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DHCP 80-20 rule IIRC, it will not broadcast again until the lease actually expires. (someone will jump in to correct me if I'm wrong) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
