Fedora Users — Re: refresh IP from dhcp isp

Hi,

Basically when you down and up a DHCP configured interface, your system will have to request lease from the DHCP server again. Usually the DHCP server will give you back what you last had (or what you asked for) if the IP is available. So it is not unusual that your IP does not change.

Or do you purposely want your IP address to change for some reason?

Regards,

.lzs
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, kate wrote:

Re: refresh IP from dhcp isp
kate wrote:
FC2:
I want to refresh my IP, which has been assigned
dynamically by my ISP.
How should I do this?
From the menu choose System Tools, then Network
Device Control, and
use
that to deactivate, then activate your ethernet
interface. If you did
not make your ethernet interface user controllable,
then you might need
to run it as root. From the command-line
system-control-network will
prompt for root password and provide a network
configuration tool. But
you can select and deactivate, then activate
interfaces from there.
Chris
Thank you, I attempted as you suggested, as root: it
did not change my IP address. I know that in WIN XP, I
can ipconfig ip /release and /renew, so that is what I
am looking for... OR i did something wrong...
thanks
kate
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