Release and renew IP

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:20:59AM +0000, Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> >How do I release and/or renew an >IP address in a command line?
> 
> May I assume that is a DHCP interface of eth0? Here a "shorter" way:
> 
> sudo dhclient eth0

Ah, but should it be dhclient or dhclient3?  If you end up with two DHCP
clients on one interface, they will interfere with each other causing
your connection to stop working mysteriously every 5 minutes or so.

> And now the "proper" way which also require proper configuration:
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/network restart

Does that work when you use Network Manager?

Marius Gedminas
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