Hi Craig The customer claims that it causes his PC to "drop off the network" for a few seconds each time it happens. The frquency of requests vary from three or four times in a one to two second period, to once each three to four minutes.
The TTL is set to an hour. As soon as I grab the logs again (once an hour) and these entries are in there I'll post it. Thanks Everyone Sam On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Back to answering Sam's question, since this thread seems to have diverged... > > When DHCP hands out an IP, it also hands out a lease time. After that lease > time expires, the client is supposed to ask for an IP again. You didn't > mention how often these DHCP requests are re-ocurring, so I can't say for sure > whether this is what is happening. But if your lease time is set low, it > would be normal for the client to ask for an IP fairly often. > > As for who is responsible for holding the IP, it is the client PC. It holds > the IP address, and it asks for a new one when the lease is up. The Airbridge > doesn't have anything to do with any of this. > > The question I have is, why does the customer care how often it's requesting > an IP? I don't think it would cause a problem, aside from a little extra > traffic from the dhcp requests. > > Craig > > > Quoting Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Smart People > > > > Hi smart people! > > > > I have a simple question: Who is responsible for "holding onto" an ip > > address from a dhcp server? > > > > I have a customer (about 12 miles from my ap) who constantly requests a > > new ip address. He is given one by the dhcp server, but not long after > > that he's back asking for another one. My customer is convinced it's the > > Airbridge (indoor) that is bad. > > > > I don't think it's the ABI's responsibility to hold the ip. I think it's > > his PC's, but then I'm not positive. > > > > He has good LQ and RSSI. > > > > (I can post a portion of the dhcp logs if it will help.) > > > > Thanks > > Sam > > > > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges > > <yournickname> > > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > > smartBridges) > > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > > > > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges > <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
