Wireless networking with DHCP "tickets"

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

On Feb 26, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:

> According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends
> some kind of a keep-alive ticket to the client every 2 minutes, and
> if the client does not respond, the lease is revoked.
>
> This functionality seems to rely on some non-standard features of the
>
This is rather normal; and unless you have some firewall set up too 
strict
works just fine with macosx/freebsds normal dhclient. See RFC3202 (the
newer force-renew) and RENEWING/REBINDING in rfc 2131.

Dw