Release and renew IP

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:52:35AM +0000, Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> 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 >>nterface 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.
> 
> File /sbin/dhclient is a symbolic link to /sbin/dhclient3.

That's good to know; it was not so in older Ubuntu versions.

> >>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
> 
> If network manager has written to file /etc/network/interfaces every
> required parameter (eg. iface eth0 inet dhcp), then yes, it should
> work with network manager. Note that OP wanted to renew, not modify
> its configuration, of IP address.

AFAIK network-manager doesn't write to /etc/network/interfaces.

Marius Gedminas
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