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DHCLIENT.LEASES(5)       DragonFly File Formats Manual      DHCLIENT.LEASES(5)


NAME

     dhclient.leases -- DHCP client lease database


DESCRIPTION

     dhclient(8) keeps a persistent database of leases that it has acquired
     that are still valid.  The database is a free-form ASCII file containing
     one valid declaration per lease.  The file is written as a log, so the
     last declaration is the most recent lease obtained.

     The lease file is named /var/db/dhclient.leases.<IFNAME>, where "IFNAME"
     represents the network interface dhclient(8) acquired the lease on.  For
     example, if dhclient(8) is configured for the em0 network device, the
     lease file will be named /var/db/dhclient.leases.em0,

     The format of the lease declarations is described in dhclient.conf(5).


FILES

     /var/db/dhclient.leases.<IFNAME>,  Current lease file.


SEE ALSO

     dhclient.conf(5), dhcp-options(5), dhcpd.conf(5), dhclient(8), dhcpd(8)


STANDARDS

     R. Droms, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, RFC 2131, March 1997.

     S. Alexander and R. Droms, DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions, RFC
     2132, March 1997.


AUTHORS

     dhclient(8) was written by Ted Lemon <mellon@vix.com> under a contract
     with Vixie Labs.

     The current implementation was reworked by Henning Brauer
     <henning@openbsd.org>.

DragonFly 3.9                   August 7, 2014                   DragonFly 3.9

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