[NTLUG:Discuss] dhcpcd guestion

[Fred James]

One additional thought: one of the firewall guys here suggested that 
maybe the router just needed to be power cycled.  I hadn't thought of 
that because the event has been random, and at both locations, but I'll 
keep it in mind just in case.


JM5379 at sbcglobal.net wrote:

>I believe these are simply scripts supplied by RH.
>
>ifdown eth0
>ifup eth0
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>will cycle the eth0 connection.
>Depending on your permissions, you may have to be root to run these.
>
>
>--- Original Message ---
>From: jeremyb at univista.com
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] dhcpcd guestion
>
>>/sbin/ifup
>>/sbin/ifdown
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>>there are no man pages for these as far as I know.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Fred James [mailto:fredjame at concentric.net] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:02 AM
>>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] dhcpcd guestion
>>
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>>man ifup, man ifdown, on RH 7.2 returned nothing.
>>network restart had no effect - don't know why
>>I think dhcpcd -k is going to do it - I'll let you know next
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>time it happens
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>>jeremyb at univista.com <mailto:jeremyb at univista.com>  wrote:
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>>I think RH 7.2 still has the ifup and ifdown scripts.   Use those.
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>>  #> ifdown eth0 
>>  #> ifup eth0
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>>If that doesn't get it then you can always do:
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>>  #> /etc/init.d/network restart
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>>But,  that'll bring all interfaces down for a few seconds.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MadHat [mailto:madhat at unspecific.com
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><mailto:madhat at unspecific.com> ] 
>
>>Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 5:48 PM
>>To: NTLUG-Discuss
>>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] dhcpcd guestion
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 03:37, Fred James wrote:
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>>If dhcpcd doesn't get a new IP on startup, but holds the stuff
>>
>it had
>
>>before power down, what is the best way to force it to net a new
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>lease 
>
>>(is that the right word?)?
>>Am I asking a question that makes sense?
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Dell Latitude C800
>>RH 7.2
>>
>>
>>delete the /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-<INTERFACE>.* then either HUP the
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>dhcpcd or
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>>(in my case) remove and readd the card (used for my wireless) :^)
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>>there are probably command line options, but this is the way I
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>force it when
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>>necessary.
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>>-- 
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