For various reasons (see below), it would be beneficial to be able to configure the frequency of the DHCP discovery service.
Several users have mentioned something related to this in the forum, but here I would like to propose the idea of having a parameter to allow users to set how often the service should run.
This would allow you to decide when to run it; for instance, every hour (as it is currently), every week, every year, and so on.
Here are a few examples of why this could be useful:
- if you have a small network with a few devices, perhaps most of which are connected via Zigbee or Z-Wave, you don’t want to generate more than 6000 requests per day simply by using this discovery protocol
- someone might have configured all their devices with static IP addresses, so they don’t want to scan them every hour of every day; they already know their exact configurations
- if you have a relatively static network that rarely changes, so those requests are just consuming power unnecessarily
Is that feasible?
Thanks