Re: DHCP connection time

Bit Twister wrote on 03/28/07 22:01:


If you are wanting to keep the same ip address, you need to renew the
"lease" before the rebind time expires


And even then, the server can decide to give you a new IP address.
The client can only ask for the same IP address, but is not guaranteed to get it.

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