Getting DHCP Via CLI

[hyclak at math.ohiou.edu (Matt Hyclak)]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:23:37AM +0900, Mark Sargent enlightened us:
> I'm wanting to tell my centos box to get a dynamic ip via cli. I know I 
> can do "ifconfig eth0 up", or "ifconfig eth0 191.168.100.35 netmask 
> 255.255.255.0", but, how do I tell it to send the dhcp 0.0.0.0 broadcast 
> to the DHCP server? Cheers.
> 

For a one-time-use, dhclient ethX should do it.

Permanently, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX.

Matt

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