Re: refresh IP from dhcp isp

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 :)

Regards,

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

--- Lai Zit Seng <lzs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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

Yes, I specifically want to change the assigned IP address.

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