From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 6:37:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AF037B404 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:37:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B7C4880D; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:37:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jester@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g2JEboN13072; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:37:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:37:50 -0500 From: Jesse Sheidlower To: Greg Oshiro Cc: scott@smnolde.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with dhclient Message-ID: <20020319143750.GA12616@panix.com> References: <20020319034134.9354237B402@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020319034134.9354237B402@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:39:00PM +0000, Greg Oshiro wrote: > This is my first reply to the list, so please let me know of any screw-ups... > > Try: > > kill > dhclient -1 > > After connecting to the "new" network > > I think the -1 option causes dhclient to attempt obtaining a lease. > I don't use DHCP, so I can't test it. Thanks. This had roughly the same results as rm'ing the dhclient.leases file, i.e. it did churn for a while and then returned nothing. As suggested by someone offlist, I'm going to try to use tcpdump to see what's actually going to and fro. Best, Jesse Sheidlower To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message