>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Herrington <[email protected]> writes:
Daniel> All, I was looking at my ClearOS dhcp leases, and saw that I Daniel> had a mysterious host show up: Daniel> 192.168.1.241d4:9a:20:5c:2b:04shalomThu Mar 14 02:02:56 2013 Daniel> The address is on my wireless LAN. I tried to ping the host, Daniel> but the response timed out. I then did a tcpdump on the Daniel> interface and filterd for anything coming from that ip, but am Daniel> not seeing any packets. My question is, since the lease was Daniel> renewed recently (I think the setup is for 24 hour leases), Daniel> does the other machine have to be online for that to happen? Daniel> Did Shalom's lease just "auto-renew" or did it have to be Daniel> online to request it? Typically, IIRC, the client is responsible for requesting a lease renewal. In most cases, about halfway through the lease time, the client will request a renewal (this might depend on the dhcp client software, but half way seems to be common with Linux clients). Of course, if the client device is sleeping, or left the range of your wireless network, or not responding to pings, you won't see it with ping. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
