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Subject: Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:24:00 -0700
"Nerius Landys" <nlandys@gmail.com> wrote:


>        The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once
> the lease
>        has been released, the client exits.
> 
> I could put this into a crontab and run it every 12 hours.  However,
> this does not seem like a very elegant solution to my problem.  I am
> wondering whether there is a more elegant solution.

Before you look for a more elegant solution I suggest you try the
inelegant solution and see if it actually works.  At the moment all you
really know is that rebooting fixes the problem.