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

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

AUTHORS
-nosplit 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>.