Can dhclient renewal time be extended?

sbyoon · Sep 5, 2006, 3:34 PM

I'm useing IPSec with DHCP ISP. Everything is ok except IPSec periodically disconnected for 3 seconds in every hour. I found that it was due to the short dhclient renewal time. The renewal time is 3600 seconds (an hour). Is there anyway I can extend the dhclient renewal time to 1 or 2 monthes? I tried to add "renew 60;" option to dhclient.conf file. But I could not even find dhclient.conf on pfsense. I'm using RC2i.

Thank you in advance.

sullrich · Sep 5, 2006, 3:45 PM

I believe that this is dictated by the ISP. Not sure changing the default ISP's timeout is a good idea.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, I have the luxury of using static IP's.

sbyoon · Sep 5, 2006, 5:54 PM

I'm also not sure if it will be possible. Anyway I'd like to test it. But the problem is I cannot find dhclient.conf on pfsense.
I created this file at /etc/dhclient.conf but strangely it was eliminated after rebooting pfsense. I'm useing embedded platfom. But I made this config file after /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw.

hoba · Sep 5, 2006, 9:08 PM

Nearly all conf files are dynamically generated on changes and/or bootup from the config.xml. The changes you do manually will be more or less soon be gone.

sbyoon · Sep 6, 2006, 12:31 AM

Then, is there no way to configure dhclient manually in pfsense?