Frequent DHCP requests from Wii
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jan 9 11:32:29 PST 2008
On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> We've got a Wii in the house, and I've got an entry for it in my
> dhcpd.conf
>
> host wii { hardware ethernet 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3; fixed-address
> wii.ewd.goldmark.org; }
>
> which correctly resolves to 10.1.10.145
>
> And everything works fine. However, the Wii keeps on making
> requests every few minutes. Here is a bit of the dhcpd logs. The
> requests come at irregular 1, 2, 5, and 9 minute intervals in this
> bit of the log.
Do you have an entry like:
default-lease-time 100000;
...in your dhcpd.conf? That might help convince the Wii to keep hold
of its lease for a longer period of time without continuously renewing
it every few minutes. Otherwise, talk to Sega or whoever about their
DHCP client...
--
-Chuck
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