the command on the window client is from the dos prompt issue the command: ipconfig /release
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "GNHLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > > Note, the following is supposition and I'd appreciate that if anybody > > notices I'm wrong they would say so. > > > > My understanding of DHCP is that the client does not *have* a mechanism > > to tell the server to release a lease for a different system. Now, I > > understand that you've simply changed NIC's, but the DHCP server has no > > way to know that. Hence, the only way to get the DHCP server to dole > > out that IP/host to you is to go to the DHCP server and manually expire > > the lease. > > To the best of my knowledge, this is correct. I know of no way to accelerate > the expiration of a lease. > > > Not knowing a thing about Windows DHCP server, I wouldn't have the first > > clue how though. 8) > > I ought to, but I do it so rarely, I'd have to look at the screens. It does > vary too some from version to version of Windows server. > > Generally, the first thing I do when faced with a Windows DHCP server is > replace it with a Linux one. ;-) > > -- > Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 603-624-7272 > *** Technical Support Excellence for over a Quarter Century > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
