how to make my dhcp client always reuse it's fixed address

Hi!

I have a dhcp (dhcp3) server with the following configuration:

boot-unknown-clients false;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
authoritative;
range 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.254;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;

host leva {
hardware ethernet 00:50:8D:46:E9:4B;
fixed-address 192.168.0.3;
}
}

The client has minimal configuration:

request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers,
netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope;

And here comes my problem:

When my dhcp server is down, my dhcp client can not connect to it (this is
clear for me :) But if my client can not connect to the server, it gives up
the DHCPDISCOVER query after the timeout, and then I end up with no ip
address configured (my eth0 device won't have an ip address). Is it possible
to configure the dhcp client (or the server, I don't know which one has such
a feature) to reuse it's previous address, if it can not connect to the dhcp
server. In the dhclient3 man I read that it will reuse that address, if it is
in the dhcp.leases file, and it is not expired. Is it possible to "turn off"
this expire feature for fixed-address hosts, so they can always reuse their
previous address?

I hope it makes sense what I'm writing :)

Thanks!

Daniel

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LeVA

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