[Dnsmasq-discuss] Can not set lease time to less than 2m

[Jim Alles]

You must have a very small network and very special requirements?

>From the man pages for dhcp-range:

Enable the DHCP server. Addresses will be given out from the range
<start-addr> to <end-addr> and from statically defined addresses given in
*dhcp-host *options.
If the lease time is given, then leases will be given for that length of
time. The lease time is in seconds, or minutes (eg 45m) or hours (eg 1h) or
"infinite". If not given, the default lease time is one hour.

The minimum lease time is two minutes.

For IPv6 ranges, the lease time maybe "deprecated"; this sets the preferred
lifetime sent in a DHCP lease or router advertisement to zero, which causes
clients to use other addresses, if available, for new connections as a
prelude to renumbering.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Tomas Hozza <thozza at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Even though I configure dnsmasq to git leases
> e.g. for 1 minute it always configures it self
> with 2m lease time. I was not able to get under
> 2m, however if the value is greater than 2m, dnsmasq
> configures itself correctly.
>
> using:
> ...
> dhcp-range=192.168.99.2,192.168.99.254,1m
> dhcp-range=fd00:dead:beef:55::100,fd00:dead:beef:55::1ff,1m
> ...
>
> gives:
> ...
> dnsmasq-dhcp: DHCP, IP range 192.168.99.2 -- 192.168.99.254, lease time 2m
> dnsmasq-dhcp: DHCPv6, IP range fd00:dead:beef:55::100 --
> fd00:dead:beef:55::1ff,
> lease time 2m
> ...
>
> Why it is so? Seems like a bug IMHO.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Tomas Hozza
> Software Engineer - EMEA ENG Developer Experience
>
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