On 21.11.2003, at 01:48, Christopher M. Iarocci wrote:

> Maybe not, but I think we can all agree that not being able to 
> configure
> this option is a hinderance, and the default option of 10 minutes is

Yes, thanks, I got the message three days ago:

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On 18.11.2003, at 08:43, Manuel Kasper wrote:

> Ping Kwong said:
>> I'm only using it on a few workstations.  I am one of those that wish
>> that the DHCP lease times could be longer or configurable.  Is there a
>
> Yeah, that's the next thing I'll do - just give me some time. And no
> thanks, I don't need any code - I just need time to get around to 
> firing
> up my dev system, rebuilding and testing the images and uploading them
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FYI, the feature has already been implemented and tested in the 
meantime (fields on the DHCP setup page to specify the default/max 
lease time, and I added WINS server support as well while I was at it). 
I still haven't got around to building new images, though. But that 
should happen before next week, so could you all please stop begging 
and ranting now? I wonder why this hasn't come up earlier anyway - 
m0n0wall's DHCP server function hasn't changed much in the last few 
releases.

> extremely low.  Who wants their machines renewing IPs every 5 minutes? 
>  That

Those values came from the sample dhcpd.conf that comes with isc-dhcpd 
3.0... I guess I'll increase the default to 3600/86400 seconds.

> a coincidence.  The only thing that fixed them, reboot them both.  I 
> can't

Now that doesn't convince me that it's m0n0wall's fault. ;)

> Netopia router with a configurable DHCP lease time which I had set to 3
> days.  :-)

Talking about working around the problem... I'd really like to know 
exactly why it doesn't work, but I guess that will have to wait until I 
can reproduce the problem here.

> My situation isn't mission critical because they're home workstations, 
> but
> if it were, I'd probably be axing m0n0wall too because of it.  I 
> couldn't

Well, I think that anybody with a network large enough to be "mission 
critical" and have more than one server shouldn't be using m0n0wall's 
built-in DHCP server anyway (for lack of manageability). Especially 
those with Windows 2000 domains and ADS.

> Is this so hard to implement?  I can't say I'm a programmer, and I 
> wouldn't

No. If you wanted, you could have just grepped for "default-lease-time" 
and would have found the appropriate line to change in services.inc. 
But I agree that building new images isn't straightforward (especially 
if you don't have any FreeBSD machines around).

> excellent piece of software that you've asked nothing for.  :-)

That's why I hate it when people are complaining with very vague bug 
reports that I can't make any use of at all. As if the DHCP server was 
m0n0wall's most important and critical feature.

- Manuel