refresh IP from dhcp isp

[kate]

--- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca>
wrote:

> 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)?
> 
> -- 
> Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca>

Could you be more exact with the syntax please. I have
read the man pages for dhclient, dhclientlease, etc,
but I am rather lost. Surely I am not the only one who
wants to refresh a dynamically assigned IP...

tia
kate



		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. 
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail