Re: Out of free leases.

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Keith Woodworth wrote:

>So we have come across the dreaded out of free leases problem. Its only a
>/25 that is in use, not a large subnet.
>
>We use the dhcpd daemon that comes with BSD/OS 4.1 and while it does not
>spit out a version number I think its of the version 2 variety.
>
>What is happening is that abanded leases are not being re-used. According
>to the FAQ on this I should be able to stop dhcpd, run a script over the
>dhcpd.leases file to remove all the abandonded leases, replace the old
>lease file with the new one and restart dhcpd.
>
>Is this correct?

Yes, you must keep the server stopped while you edit the leases file, 
BUT you can edit it manually (or via script). Version 2 is very old 
BTW, version 3 WILL automatically recover abandoned leases.

Simon

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