manually forcing a IP renewal

[Brian McKee]

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On 24-Nov-07, at 11:56 AM, Wade Smart wrote:

> 11242007 1047 GMT-6
>
> My new neighbor has a older Gateway computer ELP 500C. He has three
> windows computers hooked to a hub and uses a ambit cable modem. He
> replaced one of the windows computers with a ubuntu computer. So  
> far he
> cant get the machine to receive a IP address.
>
> He tried:
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart  with returned command not found.
> sudo dhclient  returned: DHCPDISCOVER and then after about three  
> minute
> wait DHCPOFFERS receivd no working leases in persistened database -
> sleeping.
>
> When he removes this ubuntu computer and connect his Windows computer,
> the windows computers gets a ip right away.
>

I believe Windows does not release IP addresses  by default.
Try ipconfig /release on the Windows box before you shut it down,  
then start up the Linux box and see if it gets issued something.

Brian
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