Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:40:44 -0800 From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig Message-ID: <4240BB0C.3090204@cloudview.com> In-Reply-To: <ef60af0905032216357cf6e1e5@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af09050322160747322dda@mail.gmail.com> <20050323002702.GA55820@gothmog.gr> <ef60af0905032216357cf6e1e5@mail.gmail.com>
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Gert Cuykens wrote: >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:27:02 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas ><keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > > >>On 2005-03-23 01:07, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>How do you tell a device for example nv0 to be dhcp without using rc.conf ? >>> >>> >>By manually calling the dhclient(8) utility. >> >> >> >>>Also how do you do a ipconfig /renew in freebsd ? >>> >>> >>I don't know what an `ipconfig /renew' does, so no idea about this one. >> >> >> > >thx dhclient works :) I now have inet 0.0.0.0 > >How do you tell nv0 to release and renew its dhcp adress ? >_______________________________________________ > > > man dhclient " The client normally doesn't release the current lease as it is not required by the DHCP protocol. Some cable ISPs require their clients to notify the server if they wish to release an assigned IP address. The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once the lease has been released, the client exits."
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