comcast dhcp leases

[Mark Komarinski]

On 08/25/2009 09:23 AM, jkinz at kinz.org wrote:
> Hi all - I notice that  comcast has dropped its dhcp lease times
> down to about 15 minutes, it used to be a number of hours, which
> is rather longer.   I wonder if its possible to somehow have the
> dhcp requests ask for a longer lease period?  Anyone know, how If
> its possible?
>   
I don't think you can change the lease time on the client side.

They may be getting ready to give you a new IP address or otherwise 
change your networking configuration.  If that's the case, a 15 minute 
lease time is advantageous.

-Mark