how to get dhclient to reconfigure link?

[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 22:46 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
> I had to unplug my network connection (FC5; single PC-cable modem) for a 
> couple of hours today, and when I plugged it back in, the kernel 
> recognized that the link was up again, but the dhcp client did not 
> reconfigure the link. I tried ifconfig eth0 down/up--no change. I 
> finally just killed and re-started dhclient, which worked but seems 
> pretty clunky. What's the recommended solution?

Well, if you can't find something/GUI/auto-type-program to do this for
you, then you can at least use below command to get it going again..

service dhclient (or whatever it is) restart

which will stop/restart the service for you.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY