I'm not aware of a way to query this information on the client. If you are on the server you can see information on the client leases in /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases. From the client the only way i know is:
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depending on your distro, it should be located in /var/lib/dhcp under dhclient.interface.leases or /var/lib/dhclient.leases. you can also specify the path of your dhclient.leases file by passing -lf when starting dhclient.
The Maximum Client Lead Time (MCLT) is additional time provided to a DHCP client after expiration of a DHCP lease. The MCLT is transmitted from the primary to the secondary server in the CONNECT message, and is the maximum amount of time that one server can extend a lease for a client beyond the time known by the partner server.The 1 minute MCLT value used here is for test lab purposes only, to prompt lease renewal by the client. In a production environment, you should use a longer MCLT, such as 1 hour.
There is nothing wrong with using the DHCP console (dhcpmgmt.ms) but PowerShell is awesome and simplifies many tasks. If you have a large network with hundreds of DHCP scopes then using PowerShell is a huge time saver.
Hi Robert,Thanks for putting this together. Very informative. I have a question regarding timestamps. Our ownership group wants us to write a script that captures the exact time that a dhcp address was issued to a client and then write that timestamp to a log. The previous requirement was just a monthly DHCP lease export which was easy to do, but now they want to know specifically when the address was issued. Thoughts? I appreciate any insight you may have.Thanks,Danny
The DHCP client or dhclient maintains a list of leases granted to it by the DHCP server in the dhclient.leases file. This file contains information about the DHCP server IP along with other information. You can find this file under the /var/lib/dhcp directory.
I have a centOS DHCP server configured to give out a lease of 20 mins. But a client is requesting a lease for 10 mins. Is it possible to configure dhcpd to give out a lease of 20 mins even if client requests for a 10 mins lease.
To start the daemon for a specific interface alone, start/enable the template unit dhcpcd@interface.service, where interface can be found with Network configuration#Listing network interfaces.
Using the template unit is recommended; see #dhcpcd and systemd network interfaces for details. In either case, you will be assigned a dynamic IP address. To assign a static IP address, see #Static profile.
If you need to add a static route client-side, add it to /etc/dhcpcd.exit-hook. The example shows a new hook-script which adds a static route to a VPN subnet on 10.11.12.0/24 via a gateway machine at 192.168.192.5:
The DUID value is set in /var/lib/dhcpcd/duid. For efficient DHCP lease operation it is important that it is unique for the system and applies to all network interfaces alike, while the IAID represents an identifier for each of the systems' interfaces (see RFC 4361).
It is possible to configure a static profile within dhcpcd and fall back to it when DHCP lease fails. This is useful particularly for headless machines, where the static profile can be used as "recovery" profile to ensure that it is always possible to connect to the machine.
dhcpcd contains an implementation of a recommendation of the DHCP standard (RFC 2131) to verify via ARP if the assigned IP is not used by something else. This is usually not needed in home networks, so it is possible to save about 5 seconds on every connect by disabling it:
The file /var/lib/dhcpcd/interface.lease, where interface is the name of the interface on which you have a lease, contains the actual DHCP lease reply sent by the DHCP server. For a wireless interface, the filename is /var/lib/dhcpcd/interface-ssid.lease, where ssid is the name of the wireless network. It is used to determine the last lease from the server, and its mtime attribute is used to determine when it was issued. This last lease information is then used to request the same IP address previously held on a network, if it is available. If you do not want that, simply delete this file.
If the DHCP server still assigns the same IP address, this may happen because it is configured to keep the assignment stable and recognizes the requesting DHCP client id or DUID (see #DHCP Client Identifier). You can test it by stopping dhcpcd and removing or renaming /var/lib/dhcpcd/duid. dhcpcd will generate a new one on next run.
Or you can configure dhcpcd to use the same DNS servers every time. To do this, add the following line at the end of your /etc/dhcpcd.conf, where dns-server-ip-addressses is a space separated list of DNS IP addresses.
It is also possible to enable dhcpcd on a per interface basis as described in #Running. The downside of the template unit is, however, that it does not support hot-plugging of a wired connection and will fail if the network cable is not connected. To work-around the failure, see #Timeout delay.
By default the dhcpcd@.service waits to get an IP address before forking into the background via the -w flag for dhcpcd. If the unit is enabled, this may cause the boot to wait for an IP address before continuing. To fix this, create a drop-in file for the unit with the following:
Kea High Availability (HA) was released along with Kea 1.4.0. Numerous improvements in the Kea server code had been applied to support this feature, but the HA functionality itself is included in the HA hook library (libdhcp_ha). The HA library addresses a common need present in many deployments, to provide a reliable and continuous DHCP service if one of the DHCP servers belonging to this deployment fails. In ISC DHCP this functionality was provided by the implementation of the DHCP Failover protocol described in the IETF DHCP Failover Protocol draft. The Kea HA implementation shares many design concepts with the Failover, but it is NOT a Failover implementation!
Both IETF failover protocols are based on MCLT (or Maximum Client Lead Time), sometimes referenced to as lazy updates. This mechanism lets a server respond immediately, which improves latency, but it does so at the cost of greatly increased complexity. The lease is assigned with a very short lifetime, then an update is sent to the other server with a lifetime greater than the client requested. Once the other server confirms the lease, the client's renewal is being updated with a longer lifetime. This approach generates more traffic and causes lease lifetimes to fluctuate greatly, despite an administrator setting it to a specific value. Kea HA does not implement this complexity. It is much simpler and easier to use and understand its operation, although the price to pay for this relative simplicity is a longer response time and somewhat decreased performance.
The folks at ISC note that the DHCP failover protocol is still underdevelopment, which makes it sort of a moving target. As a result, theystrongly suggest that the primary and secondary servers both be runningthe same version of dhcpd.
Now is there something i can do from the server side that would invalidate a specific clients lease forcing it to get a new one from the server (after i have added entries in dhcpd.conf) to make it get a particular ip address without releasing / renewing on the client side ?
At this point, if you restart dhcpd, it will log a bunch of error messages, as the servers know about each other, but do not know what subnets they to do failover for. To do that, we need to edit the subnet declarations in /etc/dhcpd.conf.
keepalived is a linux daemon that uses VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) to healthcheck and elect a router on the network that will serve a particular IP. We'll be using a small subset of its features in our use case.
The Cisco IOS DHCP server and relay agent are enabled by default. You can verify if they have been disabled by checking your configuration file. If they have been disabled, the no service dhcp command will appear in the configuration file. Use the service dhcp command to reenable the functionality if necessary.
Port 67 (the server port) is closed in the Cisco IOS DHCP/BOOTP default configuration. There are two logical parts to the service dhcp command: service enabled and service running. The DHCP service is enabled by default, but port 67 is not opened until the DHCP service is running. If the service is running, the show ip sockets details or show sockets detail command displays port 67 as open.
TheCisco IOS DHCP server accepts address assignment requests and renewals and assigns the addresses from predefined groups of addresses contained within DHCP address pools. These address pools can also be configured to supply additional information to the requesting client such as the IP address of the DNS server, the default router, and other configuration parameters. The Cisco IOS DHCP server can accept broadcasts from locally attached LAN segments or from DHCP requests that have been forwarded by other DHCP relay agents within the network.
We strongly recommend using database agents. However, the Cisco IOS server can run without them. If you choose not to configure a DHCP database agent, disable the recording of DHCP address conflicts on the DHCP server by using the no ip dhcp conflict logging command in global configuration mode. If there is conflict logging but no database agent configured, bindings are lost across router reboots. Possible false conflicts can occur causing the address to be removed from the address pool until the network administrator intervenes.
You can configure a DHCP address pool with a name that is a symbolic string (such as "engineering") or an integer (such as 0). Configuring a DHCP address pool also puts the router into DHCP pool configuration mode--identified by the (dhcp-config)# prompt--from which you can configure pool parameters (for example, the IP subnet number and default router list). 2ff7e9595c
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