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Date:      Mon, 05 Nov 2001 21:14:09 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Peter Brezny" <peter@skyrunner.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: forcing renew of DHCP lease 
Message-ID:  <200111060314.fA63E9o14991@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Peter Brezny" <peter@skyrunner.net>  of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:36:02 EST." <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOAEAAEFAA.peter@skyrunner.net> 

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"Peter Brezny" writes:
> How do you force an interface to renew its dhcp lease?

Kill and restart dhclient. Altho I am not sure you are in the rare 
situation where one would really need to so something like that (such 
as moving the wire from one net to another).

Normally dhclient renews its lease as needed.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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