Re: Telnet and DHCP?

[Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:46:03 -0800, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I had a site with  Cisco ASA firewall that was handling the DHCP for a
> small site. The default lease was like 1hr or some such crazy length. The
> PCs with Windows 7 were dropping telnet sessions a couple times a day.
> Found this with WireShark. The PCs were getting new addresses whcih of
> course confused the iiSeries.  Set the lease to a much long tine and the
> problem went away.

Even with a lease time of just an hour (which *is* ridiculously
short), there shouldn't be that kind of a problem.

The PCs should request a lease renewal each half hour, and since it's
an active lease the DHCP server should just renew it for another hour
each time.

Ken
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