Cisco Cisco Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF)
DHCP Service Configuration Mode Commands
▀ dhcp deadtime
▄ Command Line Interface Reference, StarOS Release 17
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dhcp deadtime
Configures the amount of time that the system waits prior to re-communicating with a DHCP server that was previously
marked as down.
marked as down.
Product
GGSN
ASN-GW
HA
P-GW
SAEGW
Privilege
Security Administrator, Administrator
Mode
Exec > Global Configuration > Context Configuration > DHCP Service Configuration
configure > context context_name > dhcp-service service_name
Entering the above command sequence results in the following prompt:
[context_name]host_name(config-dhcp-service)#
Syntax
dhcp deadtime max_time
max_time
Specifies the maximum amount of time (in minutes) to wait before communicating with a DHCP server that
was previously unreachable.
was previously unreachable.
max_time
is an integer value from 1 through 65535. Default: 10
Usage
If the system is unable to communicate with a configured DHCP server, after a pre-configured number of
failures the system marks the server as being down.
This command specifies the amount of time that the system waits prior to attempting to communicate with
the downed server.
failures the system marks the server as being down.
This command specifies the amount of time that the system waits prior to attempting to communicate with
the downed server.
Important:
If all DHCP servers are down, the system will immediately treat all DHCP servers as active,
regardless of the deadtime that is specified.
Refer to the
dhcp detect-dead-server
and
max-retransmissions
commands for additional
information on the process the system uses to mark a server as down.
Example
The following command configures the system to wait
20
minutes before attempting to re-communicate with
a dhcp server that was marked as down:
dhcp deadtime 20