So what is the point of Aggressive DHCP query frequency?

[Grievous Angel]

I turned mine to normal. Seems to get a lease from my ISP for 8 hours, and renews with 4 hours to go.

I did this specifically because supposedly some ISPs have blocked/banned people because their routers do this too often. I'm with Charter and they were one of the ISPs mentioned.

What's the point of the "aggressive" setting? I don't think I'm missing out on anything--what's the point of doing it more often than "normal?"

A "FAQ" on some of these settings would be great--I google them but then it turns out it's mostly references back to our routers without specifically talking about what some of these are for. I'm hardly the authority or else I might try to start one.

 

[RMerlin]

I turned mine to normal. Seems to get a lease from my ISP for 8 hours, and renews with 4 hours to go.

I did this specifically because supposedly some ISPs have blocked/banned people because their routers do this too often. I'm with Charter and they were one of the ISPs mentioned.

What's the point of the "aggressive" setting? I don't think I'm missing out on anything--what's the point of doing it more often than "normal?"

A "FAQ" on some of these settings would be great--I google them but then it turns out it's mostly references back to our routers without specifically talking about what some of these are for. I'm hardly the authority or else I might try to start one.

This determines how aggressive the router will be in asking for a lease - it has nothing to do with the duration.

That setting was added because Charter would blacklist routers sending them too many DHCP requests in a short period of time. Their modem tends to take longer than the router to get fully up, so on a reboot, the router would end up sending DHCP requests before the modem was ready, which led to customers getting blacklisted by Charter, forcing them to turn off modem and router for 5-10 mins to fix things.

In aggressive mode, the router will work the same way it used to work before.

In Normal mode, it will wait up to 3 minutes before re-sending DHCP requests if the first one didn't get answered, to avoid blacklisting. So it might take longer to obtain a lease if you just rebooted modem or router.

For most people, Aggressive is fine. For Charter users (and other ISPs that are more aggressive), set it to Normal.

 

[Grievous Angel]

So it has to do with how often it will try to obtain a lease in the even of NOT being able to obtain a lease--as during modem startup.

It has nothing to do with how often a lease is requested, or the length of the lease.

I'm with Charter so I'll leave it to normal.

 

[Nerre]

If the "aggressive" setting is "normal", wouldn't it be better to rename (and invert) the selection? Call it "Relaxed DHCP query frequency"?

I think that normally, when turing off a setting, people will assume that "if it is not aggressive it is normal".

 

[RMerlin]

If the "aggressive" setting is "normal", wouldn't it be better to rename (and invert) the selection? Call it "Relaxed DHCP query frequency"?

I think that normally, when turing off a setting, people will assume that "if it is not aggressive it is normal".

Don't ask me, I didn't name it. When I implemented that feature in my own firmware, I had made it always use the Normal timing.

Might be because Asus recommends people to use Normal by default, as it is the most compatible setting.