Doug Lytle <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
James,
Did you take into account that DHCP addresses have an expiry time. 1.6
has a 5 minute expire time frame. I went to check my system at home
and found that the tunnel was down and it had lost it's IP address.
Right, the leases are given out for 5 minutes, but Windows should try to renew
the lease indefinitely and 1.6 will respond positively to renewal requests.
The lease is given for a short period of time so that the IP/netmask
association with the adapter will go away quickly if/when OpenVPN shuts down.
In my testing on XP, the DHCP client on Windows tries to renew usually about
50% of the way through the lease. Which Windows OS are you using?
Are you saying that the renewal is not occuring, so that the address is lost
after 5 minutes?
Right now I am passing the DHCP option DHCP_LEASE_TIME (code 51) by default
(with a value of 5 minutes). It's possible that I also need to pass
DHCP_RENEW_TIME (code 58) and/or DHCP_REBIND_TIME (code 59) to be more
compatible with all DHCP clients. I didn't add these because the XP DHCP
client didn't seem to need them.
Any DHCP experts out there who care to comment?
James