DHCP oddness

Arsya Pandji arsya.linux at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 17:08:11 UTC 2007


You can also try

sudo ifdown -v <iface>
sudo ifup -v <iface>

the -v option means verbose, so you could see what's going on.
ifup should also trigger dhcp request

-arsya-


On 4/4/07, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 4, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
>
> > Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone run into this before?
> >
> > As far as I know, bringing the interface down and up again does not
> > trigger the dhclient to run again. Eitehr you can run the client
> > yourself (insert interface)
> >
> > sudo dhclient <iface>
> >
> > or simply restart the networking completely
> >
> > sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> >
> > Another solution might have been using the networkmanager to
> > restart the
> > connection (knetworkmanager for kubuntu, gnome-networkmanager for
> > ubuntu
> > IIRC).
>
> Learn something new every day.  Thanks for the information!
>
> -Bart
>
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