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Date:      Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:38:42 -0400
From:      "Matthew K. Cowger" <mcowger@bowdoin.edu>
To:        Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jslivko.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Restart rc.conf
Message-ID:  <3b55d93b5886.3b58863b55d9@bowdoin.edu>

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By design, a DHCP server will always give you the same address you had 
before if at all possible, this is part of the RFC for DHCP itself, and 
is normal behavior.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2001 10:40 pm
Subject: Re: Restart rc.conf

> HI Jonathan ;
>    But when I type "ifconfig" , it shows me the affected ethernet 
> card still
> holding old IP address.
> 
> "Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote:
> 
> > ifconfig will unbind and bind the new IP's without the need for 
> a reboot,
> > AFAIK. -- Jonathan
> >
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> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote:
> >
> > > Hi ;
> > >    After I have change the IP address of the erthernet card , 
> how do I
> > > restart it to update the change without rebooting the system .
> > >     I've tried type ". /etc/rc.conf" but seems like not work 
> at all .
> > >
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