Re: dhcp-client cleanup

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:39:58 -0500, cga wrote:
How can I use dhclient (or another tool) to force the expiration/renewal
of my current dhcp lease..? Windows 98' provides this functionality via
winipcfg but I could not find anything similar mentioned in the dhclient
man page. The objective is to start afresh from a "clean" environment.

You could just delete the dhclient*.leases file, and restart the
network. For me it would be
rm /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth1.leases
service network restart

Of course it might depend on what distribution you are running on.
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