[Q] How to extend the time DHCP allows clients

[deviney]

I keep getting connections to the pineapple but after a few minutes they have gone. I checked the log an got the message below:

00:59:10 Pineapple daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA cc:55:ad:e7:a1:86 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE)

So i thought the solution would be simply allow the client to lease the IP address for longer. So i went to the pineapples DHCP config file and seen that the client is allowed the address for 12h (config shown below) so is there a reason for them to be connected due to a timer?

config 'dhcp' 'lan'
option 'interface' 'lan'
option 'start' '100'
option 'limit' '150'
option 'leasetime' '12h'
option 'ignore' '0'
list 'dhcp_option' '3,172.16.42.42'
list 'dhcp_option' '3,172.16.42.1'
list 'dhcp_option' '6,172.16.42.1,8.8.8.8'
list 'dhcp_option' '6,172.16.42.1,208.67.222.222'

[barry99705]

The lease drops because the client is no longer connected. Shouldn't have anything to do with the server's lease time. A shorter time is preferred in a target rich environment. If the lease time is too long you'll have ip addresses being held by clients no longer on the network.