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Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:45:09 -0500
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From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
Subject: determining IP address
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I have a networked FreeBSD computer that picks up an address from a DHCP 
server.  How can I:

    - determine what its current IP address is?

    - force it to get a new address from the server?

Thanks in advance,
Chip Morton


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