--- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxx> 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
