Re: Forcing DHCP renewal

2001-10-22 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:44:03PM -0400] David Priban : I've been trying to force DHCP renewal before the lease time expires I am not sure but is this not illegal to try on a commercial provider's DHCP server. Will they not sue us if we try to hijack the expiry of the lease period of their

RE: Forcing DHCP renewal

2001-10-22 Thread David Priban
Not sure what would be illegal on e.g. restarting your machine. This will require DHCP server to issue a new lease. Also using DHCP doesn't necessarily mean dynamic IP address. I've been trying to force DHCP renewal before the lease time expires I am not sure but is this not illegal to try

Forcing DHCP renewal

2001-10-21 Thread David Priban
Hi everybody, I have question which is bugging me for quite some time: I've been trying to force DHCP renewal before the lease time expires. I'm using ISC dhcp-client 2.0pl5-6.1. Quick look at the source shows that sending SIGUSR1 to dhclient process shoud do the trick. Well, it does renew the