From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 12:28:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.bigmailbox.com (mail2.bigmailbox.com [209.132.220.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661ED37B422 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: œby mail2.bigmailbox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA03243; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:28:20 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:28:20 -0700 Message-Id: <200008231928.MAA03243@mail2.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-Ip: [4.33.194.94] From: "Nathaniel G H" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP "refresh" question Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> How can I fix this? Is there any way to tell the machine to >> obtain a new address when there is no route to an external host? > >The easy way would be to kill the dhclient and restart it... That is quite obvious, and very simple... but it requires human intervention. I was trying to find out if there is a way to do this automatically. It needs to happen when the DHCP address is no longer valid, but the lease time has not expired. Thanks, NGH ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message