dhcpcd-discuss

On 22/06/2017 17:31, David Hauck wrote:
> On Thursday, June 22, 2017 9:24 AM, Roy Marples wrote:
>> On 22/06/2017 17:20, David Hauck wrote:
>>> Hi Roy,
>>>
>>> On Thursday, June 22, 2017 7:38 AM, Roy Marples wrote:
>>>> On 22/06/2017 09:05, Roy Marples wrote:
>>>>> Saying that, there is an issue where the lease will be discarded if
>>>>> it has expired when dhcpcd starts up. If this is your issue,
>>>>> subscribe to the below task and we'll see about fixing it.
>>>>> https://dev.marples.name/T124
>>>>
>>>> I forgot that the lastleaseextend directive allows this.
>>>> You might need that option as well.
>>>
>>> Just so I'm clear here: without lastleaseextend the lease *should* be deleted on expiration,
>> regardless of lastlease, right?  That is, lastlease only refers to using the lease iff REBIND/REBOOT fails
>> *and* the least hasn't expired. Once the lease has expired it rightfully should be discarded and the
>> interface brought down.
>>
>> The interface is never brought down, just de-configured if persistent is not set.

No, the leasefile isn't deleted as such.
dhcpcd just discards it (ie mentions it, but doesn't delete it).
When it get a new lease it will overwrite the old one.

Does this help?

Roy