Frequent DHCP requests from Wii

[Chuck Swiger]

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