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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:28:00 +0000
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
To:        Nathaniel G H <bsd_appliance@bemail.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DHCP "refresh" question
Message-ID:  <20000824202800.A3791@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <200008231928.MAA03243@mail2.bigmailbox.com>; from bsd_appliance@bemail.org on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:28:20PM -0700
References:  <200008231928.MAA03243@mail2.bigmailbox.com>

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Unless the network is lying to me again, Nathaniel G H said: 

> That is quite obvious, and very simple... but it requires human
> intervention.  I was trying to find out if there is a way to do
> this automatically.  It needs to happen when the DHCP address is
> no longer valid, but the lease time has not expired.

How is a daemon able to determine that the address is no longer valid?

It would be quite simple enough to do a:

	'killall -HUP dhclient'

When you knew the address went sour.

AlanC


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