[svlug] How to restart DHCP

[Rajeev Arora]

or just "pump" usually works.
if you have more than one interfaces you may need to
specify the interface name as well.
ex. 
pump -i eth0

--- hvrietsc at myrealbox.com wrote:
> to release: ifdown eth0
> to renew: ifup eth0
> 
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:42:41AM -0700, Daevid
> Vincent wrote:
> > Hiya. Sometimes my extrememly annoying ISP
> (Verizon) likes to just
> > hijack the IP I've been using with DHCP for no
> apparent reason. Granted
> > they use dynamic IP's and won't let me have a
> static one unless I pay
> > $200/month for a 'business account'. However, they
> usually don't change
> > the IP all that often, mebbe once every other
> month or so. So for the
> > most part, I have my DNS TTL set to 15 minutes and
> I deal with it when
> > it happens.
> > 
> > Okay, I normally run 'ifconfig' to find out my IP
> address after a
> > reboot. However there has to be a better way to
> tell eth0 to get the new
> > IP without rebooting. (on windows, I would just do
> "ipconfig /release"
> > and "ipconfig /renew", and it all just works real
> easily like that) 
> > 
> > I tried to run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd restart",
> but that doesn't do
> > anything. Nor does "start" or "stop". Looking at
> the script, it seems it
> > should at least print out some text on the screen
> (like all other
> > scripts do in that dir)
> > 
> > This is fairly stock RH7.3 I'm running. What am I
> missing about this?
> > 
> > The actual script has this in it:
> > 
> > [ -f /usr/sbin/dhcpd ] || exit 0
> > [ -f /etc/dhcpd.conf ] || exit 0
> > [ -f /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases ] || exit 0
> > 
> > [root at daevid init.d]# ll /usr/sbin/dhcpd
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        91148 Aug 26 
> 2001 /usr/sbin/dhcpd
> > [root at daevid init.d]# ll /etc/dhcpd.conf
> > ls: /etc/dhcpd.conf: No such file or directory
> > [root at daevid init.d]# ll
> /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases 
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug 26 
> 2001
> > /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
> > 
> > So why don't I have "/etc/dhcpd.conf"?
> > [root at daevid init.d]# locate dhcpd.conf
> > /usr/share/doc/dhcp-2.0pl5/dhcpd.conf.sample
> > /usr/share/man/man5/dhcpd.conf.5.gz
> > 
> > I looked at the sample one, and it seems pretty
> complex -- nothing I
> > want to just fudge. But all this seems
> un-necessary, since my machine
> > does work fine without it. So what *is* being
> called to set up the DHCP
> > IP address stuff, since /init.d/dhcpd is clearly
> exiting.
> > 
> > D.
> > 
> > 
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