How to renew the ip address on a Linux machine?

[John Albee]

I also mistakenly assumed that you were connecting to a network like @home when I first read your message.

John Albee

On Sat, 12 May 2001 14:29:48 -0700
Gontran <locuchon@azstarnet.com> wrote:

> * John Albee (guesswho911@home.com) wrote:
> > THe best approach is to use a program like pump to maintain your IP address.  RedHat includes pump, but I am not sure as the included equivalent on SuSE.  Pump is available at freshmeat.net if you choose to use it.
> > 
> > John Albee
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 10 May 2001 15:26:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > Sundar Narayanasamy <sundar4unix@excite.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Just a simple question. I am connected to the DHCP server. How do you
> > > exactly renew the IP address when I need to in Linux(SuSE 7.1)
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > Sundar
> > > 
> Sundar,
> 
> Try 
> 	% dhclient  
> 
> No parameters needed. Just discovered it on my SuSE 6.2 laptop the other day 
> -- hadn't needed to use dhcp with it before.  I though at first that it was 
> SuSE specific, but turns out it's not.  man 8 dhclient.
> 
> 
> Gontran
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