On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, John Nichel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get one of my RH boxes to request a new IP address from > the upstream DHCP server, but I've run into a snag. I've tried > restarting the network, and using ifdown/ifup for the particular network > card, but I keep getting the same IP. I seem to remember a command in > RH 7.x like 'dhcpcd', but it doesn't seem to be installed with RH 9, and > I can't find a package for it. I've googled, but can't find anything The DHCP client package in RH9 is dhclient-3.0pl2-6.14. If that's installed, you should only need to run redhat-config-network and check that you want to get IP settings using DHCP. > that I haven't already tried to give me a NEW ip address (I don't want > to get the same one). As others have pointed out, if you were getting your IP from DHCP before, you probably won't get a new address when you restart the interface. If you had a static address before, you *should* get a new address when you DHCP for it. The only reason I can think of that that wouldn't happen would be if you actually were using a DHCP address (maybe copied from a working DCHP on the Windows side of a dual boot) but were storing it statically because you hadn't figured out how to DHCP on the Linux side. There is a way to force-relinquish a DHCP lease (read the dhclient man page), but I don't think that will guarantee that you don't get the same IP on the next request. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
