Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:37:04 -0400 From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> To: "Nathaniel G H" <bsd_appliance@bemail.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: DHCP "refresh" question Message-ID: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPGELKCAAA.otterr@telocity.com> In-Reply-To: <200008231928.MAA03243@mail2.bigmailbox.com>
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just a suggestion: (i had a similar script that i used to use with a modem, back before ADSL came along) make a script that pings an external host every n interval of time... maybe even have it ping 3 hosts, just as backups. if none of the hosts respond or you get a "no route to host" message, have the script HUP your dhclient. -Otter -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nathaniel G H Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:28 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP "refresh" question >> How can I fix this? Is there any way to tell the machine to >> obtain a new address when there is no route to an external host? > >The easy way would be to kill the dhclient and restart it... 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 It needs to happen when the DHCP address is no longer valid, but the lease time has not expired. Thanks, NGH ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/ 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
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