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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:20:21 +1000
From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Rob Zietlow <zietlow@berbee.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: dhclient not getting an IP address
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:14:43AM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote:
> Whenever I switch networks (home and work)  I cannot use dhclient to retrieve
> an IP address for the respected network.  I always have to reboot the machine
> and then it gets one.  I have tried dhclient and dhclient fxp0  in the
> command line.  This releases my IP address changing it to 0.0.0.0, but
> doesn't renew and get me my new IP (172.30.X.X or 192.168.X.X, depending on
> my location)   I have had this issue with 4.3 and 4.4   Do I need anything
> special in my /etc/dhclient.conf?   Any Hints, comments, suggestions?

Make sure dhclient is dead, throw away /var/db/dhclient.leases and try again.

If this doesn't help, please send some tcpdump output.

Edwin

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