Hi,
does anyone know how I can force a release of my ip address?
This has to be done because my ISP somehow keeps track of what os runs
on a particular MAC-address and when I try to reboot into windows I have
to wait for the DHCP server to timeout before I can access the Internet
again. Since I'm
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 19:25, Michael Smith wrote:
> If you mean change your address... try going to your router (or using
> your connection software) and re-connecting...
No I mean I have to send "DHCP-RELEASE" to the dhcp-server or I won't
get an IP when windows starts. But when I try and run "dh
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 19:23, Michael Kuss wrote:
> In theory, adsl should be stopped properly when you shut down. However,
My adsl is equal to eth from the computer in respect to DNS and such.
It's just TCP/UDP traffic that's stopped.
> doesn't happen too often to motivate me to investigate. Bu
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 18:20, Will Mendez wrote:
> ifconfig eth0 down = release
> dhcp -n eth0 = renew
No :-(
ifconfig eth0 down does not send a dhcp-release.
dhclient -r should do it but it only returns this...
cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:13, Pete Peterson wrote:
>
> The dhclient man page seems to imply that "dhclient -r" will do that.
I whish it was that easy. That only returns:
--
# dhclient -r eth0
cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sig
Hi,
Just thought I should tell how to do it in case anyone else runs in to
this problem.
I've tried just about everything but nothing worked.
After using SuSE for a day I switched to using their choice of
dhcp-client "dhcpcd" and after modifying /etc/rc.d/init.d/network to run
"dhcpcd -k" at
