[Leaplist] dhcp & stale leases

[Kevin Korb]

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I have never used pump but most DHCP clients stay running so that they can
poll for a new lease whenever their existing lease expires.  Does pump
have a setting to do that?  If not are you married to pump?

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:08:01 -0500
Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> I have a DSL modem in pass-through mode and periodically, the power goes 
> out.  (No more UPS ports and internal switch is more important.)  I'm 
> running `pump` as the dhcp client.
> 
> After a power cycle, pump will obviously fail to renew a lease the DSL 
> modem is unaware of.
> 
> I could just run `pump -i eth` via cron every minute, but I am curious 
> if there's some more elegant solution, given the NIC signals loss of 
> cable when the DSL modem cycles and the lease renewal is denied.
> 
> I know I had this issue years ago, but that box is long gone, along with 
> my solution, whatever it ended up being.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 


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