Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:14:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: dhclient man and renew? Message-ID: <20020807200734.D33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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Hello list, just an observation and a question about /sbin/dhclient (I cannot determine which version of the binary I am running). The observation is that the manpage for `man 8 dhclient` is not a smooth read; The flags listed at the beginning are not laid out clearly in the following paragraphs - are there any plans for a re-write of it? It isn't exactly clear how to use the -w and -1 flags, and I'm sure (although it may be "contrary" to RFCs about the man command) an example wouldn't hurt. My question is the following scenario. If you shut off your cable modem (or in general, your Internet connection), say overnight, then later turn it back on, is there a way to effectively wake up the dhclient? I would consider the -1 or -w flags, or killing the running dhclient process or deleting the file /var/db/dhclient.leases so that it could be obtained again new. What actually worked this time was trying to run `arp -a` then *waiting* patiently, maybe 2 to 3 minutes and running the command again (yeay). -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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