Help with Linux and DHCP

[gerry.feldman at compaq.com (Jerry Feldman)]

I believe that Pump is only available on Red Hat. I use dhcpcd on SuSE, 
and the only problems I have ever had with it was with the scripts in 
earlier SuSE releases. 
/sbin/dhcpcd -k eth0 should cause dhcpclient to release. You could also 
take ifconfig down:/sbin/ifconfig down. 

In my case, on the laptop, everything gets released by the card manager 
when I pop out the card. I am currently using SuSE 6.4 with the 2.2.16 
kernel. The SuSE scripts in 6.1 and 6.2 were buggy, but these were all 
fixed in 6.3. 6.4 has improved on the scripts. I can actually do this using 
YaST (which is SuSE's configuration utility). 

On 1 Mar 2001, at 12:19, Brian J. Conway wrote:

> > I've looked at the man pages for dhcp, dhcpcd, and ifconfig, and nothing
> > lets me release the IP address.
> > 
> > How can I force the release and force query and acceptance of a new
> > address should a lease or reboot offer address?
> 
> 'man pump'.  I _would_ tell you how if I knew off the top of my head,
> but I avoid DHCP like the plague. =)

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