refresh IP from dhcp isp
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Thu Dec 23 14:23:16 UTC 2004
Lai Zit Seng wrote:
> In that case, there's a -r option to dhclient which according to the
> manpages is supposed to do a DHCP release.
>
> I'm not sure what's wrong, but this doesn't actually do anything on my
> FC3 box. Tcpdump shows no DHCP_RELEASE packet is ever sent, and the
> original client doesn't exit either. But perhaps you might have better
> luck with it :)
Have you tried to kill original client first, than do -r thingie, and
than restart the client (for example, ifdown ethx; ifup ethx)?
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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
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