Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[Jeff Bankston <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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