On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 08:31:23PM +0159, Han Boetes wrote: > Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > I read man dhcp and man dhclient and wasn't able to determine > > how to restart the DHCP process (or the whole network) if my > > cable modem with DHCP server crashes and I have to reboot it. I > > suggest this information to be added, but I don't know where it > > belongs. > > Default behaviour for _any_ daemon is the restart on the HUP > signal; ie: > > $ sudo pkill -HUP dhcpd
The OP seems interested in restarting dhclient too, but SIGHUP kills dhclient.