Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:35:50 -0500 From: "Travis Leuthauser" <travis-lists@winconx.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DHCP "refresh" question Message-ID: <04a001c00e0a$e41c5de0$20503cd0@travis> References: <200008231928.MAA03243@mail2.bigmailbox.com> <20000824202800.A3791@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
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What about writing a script to run say every five minutes which pings the next upstream router and if it returns a "no route to host", assume the connection has gone sour and HUP the dhclient? Just a thought, I personally couldn't write a script to do it, but I'm sure it's not all that hard to do. Travis Leuthauser Network Administrator WinConX Online, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Clegg" <abc@bsdi.com> To: "Nathaniel G H" <bsd_appliance@bemail.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:28 PM Subject: Re: DHCP "refresh" question > Unless the network is lying to me again, Nathaniel G H said: > > > 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 no longer valid, but the lease time has not expired. > > How is a daemon able to determine that the address is no longer valid? > > It would be quite simple enough to do a: > > 'killall -HUP dhclient' > > When you knew the address went sour. > > AlanC > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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