Re: a Liar DHCP server

[Christopher Kruslicky <anub-openbsd@open.mine.nu>]

---  Original Message Details ---
Who: Greg \"Ted\" Marsh 
What: a Liar DHCP server 
When: Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:04 pm
--- - - - - - - - - - - - - ---
<...>
> So I hope that someone out there will be able to tell me where to
> look, or an idea at to what to look for in order to override the
> false defaults sent out by the DHCP servers at Rogers. I've looked
> through all the man pages listed after doing a 'man -k dhcp', and
> I'll be the first to admit that I may have glossed right over what I
> was needing to adjust.
<...>
> /etc/dhclient.conf
> initial-interval 1;
> send host-name "cr872793-a";
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers,
>        domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
<...>
> If anyone has any suggestions, or what man page to re-read, I would
> be greatly appreciative.


check out:
man dhclient

which also points to:
man dhclient.conf

in particular, check out the section "supersede"
the option to supersede that jumped out at me is "dhcp-lease-time" but 
I haven't tested that myself.