[ltp] DHCP- releasing/renewing IP addresses

Torsten Daiber linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:31:24 +0100


Am Montag, 28. Oktober 2002 17:06 schrieb Shane Grantham:
> What command does one use to renew and release a DHCP address? I though=
t it
> might be ifconfig, but haven't found the correct format for it.

That depends on your Linux version. On Suse Linux 7.2 it has been "rcdhcl=
ient=20
restart" (as root), whereas on 8.1 it has changed to "ifdown-dhcp eth0;=20
ifup-dhcp eth0".

HTH
Gruss
Torsten