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

NAME
     dhclient.leases -- DHCP client lease database

DESCRIPTION
     The Internet Software Consortium DHCP client 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.  If  more  than
     one  declaration  appears	for  a	given lease, the last one in the file is
     used.  The file is written as a log, so this is not an unusual occurrence.

     The lease file is named dhclient.leases.IFNAME, where IFNAME represents the
     network interface the DHCP client acquired the lease on.  For  example,  if
     dhclient(8)  is  configured for the em0 network device, the lease file will
     be named 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)

     RFC 2132, RFC 2131.

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

     The   current   implementation   was   reworked  by  Henning  Brauer  <hen-
     ning@openbsd.org>.

FreeBSD ports 15.1		 January 1, 1997	      DHCLIENT.LEASES(5)

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