Fix long DHCP lease times #2601
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Fix for lease times > 7FFFFFFF seconds.
Forever lease time is unsigned long with value FFFFFFFF.
If lease time > 7FFFFFFF, calling Ethernet.maintain() would force a renew every time. That is wrong, overloads dhcp server and generates unnecessary network traffic.
Issue was described here: https://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=985