refresh IP from dhcp isp

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

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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