From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 11:23:30 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 11:23:28 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.sc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F4937B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by Mail6.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:23:16 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f04JNos09337; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:23:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:23:50 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: trini0 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: restarting or renewing dhclient Message-ID: <20010104142350.A9296@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: trini0 , FreeBSD Questions References: <3A54C701.A836F5DA@optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A54C701.A836F5DA@optonline.net>; from trini0@optonline.net on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500 Return-Receipt-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dhclient runs as a daemon and automatically renews the lease when it expires, etc. What exactly went wrong with your network? On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, trini0 wrote: > Hey all. I have had my box serving my lan on a cable modem with the > same external ip address, until this morning. I had to restart the box > in order to get the network going again. I tried looking in man 5 > dhclient.conf for clues to see if I could say restart/refresh dhclient > once a day. I came across a renew statement, but it seems limited in > its time field format, unlike cron's. Does anyone know of a way to > flush, restart/renew dhclient. I know about isc mailing list, I figured > I'd ask here before subscribing with them, just for one ?. > Thanks > > -- > > _____________________________ > | trini0 | > | | > / ) | Systems Administrator | > / / | Network Engineer | > ( ( | email ==> | > (((\ \> |/ ) trini0@optonline.net | > (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| > \ / > \ _/ > / / > / / > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message