I am using ISC dhclient 4.3.1 on my debian 8.3 Linux. When the $reason reported by dhclient is TIMEOUT due to valid lease from leases file cannot be reached, the dhclient-script exits with status 2. The dhclient is not sending DHCPDISCOVER msgs after this. However, when the $reason reported by dhclient is FAILED due to no valid lease available, the
Tag: dhclient
DHClient override renewal time
My ubuntu machine is receiving a renewal time of 7000 seconds from the DNS server. I want to change this on the ubuntu machine to be longer via the dhclient.conf. I can’t change the dhcp sever. However all the examples I try don’t seem to be the correct syntax. For instance if I add at the top of the .conf