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[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 08:19, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Thursday 2007-11-01 at 07:56 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > In googling, I found that there apparently is no GUI tool for configuring
> > or renewing DHCP leases. I dropped down to the command line and have
> > tried both 'service network restart' and 'dhclient -r eth0'
>
> As root, "rcdhcp[tab][tab]". Select the client if it shows two, then
> complete typing "restart" an enter.

Cool.  I got it working, tho.  I just typed dhclient eth0.  That seemed to do 
the trick. (Need to remember to KISS.)



jabba:/home/kai # dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:16:d4:a7:6d:64
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:16:d4:a7:6d:64
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPOFFER from 10.3.8.222
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPOFFER from 10.3.8.222
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 10.3.8.222
bound to 10.3.10.250 -- renewal in 149 seconds.
jabba:/home/kai # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:D4:A7:6D:64
          inet addr:10.3.10.250  Bcast:10.3.15.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:63003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:7052317 (6.7 Mb)  TX bytes:6266 (6.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:177



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