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Fascinating. How do you know these details? :)


4 hour layover, Laptop, Wireshark, nothing better to do. Also, the wife demanded WiFi for her phone, so I decided to debug the problem...


Most desktop operating systems will show you the DHCP lease time and subnet mask if you look in the right place.


Windows:

  ipconfig /all
macOS:

  ipconfig getpacket <interface>
Linux:

  cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases




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