Specify the Amount of Time After Which an IP Address Is Made Available

Use the offer-reuse command to specify the maximum timeframe after which an offered IP address can be returned to the pool of free addresses. This timeframe can be from 1-120 seconds. In this example, the timeout is set to 10 seconds.

1. Configure the offer-reuse property to time out on switch 1.

   SEFOS# configure terminal
   SEFOS(config)# ip dhcp server offer-reuse 10
   SEFOS(config)# end
   

2. View the change to the configuration.

   SEFOS# show ip dhcp server information
    
   DHCP server status                         : Enable
   Send Ping Packets                          : Enable
   Debug level                                : None
   Server Address Reuse Timeout               : 10 secs
   Next Server Address                        : 0.0.0.0
   Boot file name                             :