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GeoffW · 23-02-2009, 13:42

My understanding was that the renewal was typically 50% of the lease time, so for a 7 day lease, you'd renew after 3/5 days. That way your PC appears not to change it's address as you'd need to have it turned off for some time for the DHCP server to age the MAC address it associates with the DHCP lease and assign that address to another PC.

If you were seeing different IP addresses before, it could have been due to the short lease time on your old router.

23-02-2009, 13:42	#5
GeoffW Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reading Posts: 256	Re: COnnection status (release/renew) My understanding was that the renewal was typically 50% of the lease time, so for a 7 day lease, you'd renew after 3/5 days. That way your PC appears not to change it's address as you'd need to have it turned off for some time for the DHCP server to age the MAC address it associates with the DHCP lease and assign that address to another PC. If you were seeing different IP addresses before, it could have been due to the short lease time on your old router.