From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 9 08:24:11 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D7BE2915E for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 08:24:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk (outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk [95.142.156.253]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAA877F9A7 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 08:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk (unknown [82.71.56.121]) (Authenticated sender: mailpool@milibyte.co.uk) by outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 62F4E21E15721 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 09:17:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (helo=milibyte.co.uk) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1e1TM0-0000jQ-Oc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:24:00 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1920706.4AQDsyKOQm@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (FreeBSD/11.1-RELEASE-p1; KDE/4.14.30; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <59DABB98.6040009@gmail.com> References: <59DA19E8.5000602@gmail.com> <259de481-2286-589f-ae18-8922d473813e@mgm51.com> <59DABB98.6040009@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mike@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Subject: Re: forcing new dynamic ip address X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 08:24:11 -0000 On Sunday 08 Oct 2017 19:58:16 Ernie Luzar wrote: > Thank you. This is the solution I was looking for. I tested it and it > works. But I have to first cycle the cable modem's power off/on to > signal the isp network that new hardware is being used and prepare to do > dhcp function. Could you set up a cron job to telnet into your router and issue the commands to disconnect and reconnect to the WAN. -- Mike Clarke