From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 21:30:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.188.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B0D37B402 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g2A5Ue193899; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:30:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to lowell@world.std.com using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release/Renew IP?? References: <4.2.0.58.20020309012046.00968c20@pop.netzero.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Mar 2002 00:30:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020309012046.00968c20@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: <44it852dmn.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lord Raiden writes: > Ok, this is not something I normally deal with because this > usually isn't an issue, so for now it's more of a curiosity. How do > you release and renew your IP under FreeBSD 4.5 without rebooting? > I'm curious and I'm gonna store this away for later when I might > actually need it. Thanks. With or without rebooting, the default FreeBSD DHCP client doesn't release leases. You can always force a renewal by restarting the client, but it won't do a release -- it will just try to get a new lease. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message