Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:47 -0500, Jeff Bankston wrote:
Rookie question of the day......
What option on ifconfig permits me to drop and acquire an IP address without rebooting? I tried the down/up options, no joy. No "plumb" command that I can find.
If you're using dhcpcd (the default dhcp client), then "dhcpcd -k" will kill dhcp, bring down the network interface, and force it to request a new IP address the next time you bring it up.
what actually worked was dhcpcd -k to drop the IP, switch cat5 cables to the other network, then enter "dhcpcd eth0" to restart the service. rcnetwork seemed to take a bit longer to do its thing, dhcpcd worked alot faster not that time is of much consequence. I guess it boils down to preference. Thanks to all, another notch cut out of the MickeySoft gun butt. -Jeff