Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-04 Thread Dan Jenkins
Fred wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 10:58, Dan Jenkins wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Michael ODonnell wrote: ... The simplest thing would be for the Windows sysadmin to just delete the lease and let it be reassigned. It ought not be but a minute to do. (I am not in front of one of my Windows

Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
OK, this seems like it should be obvious but I'm not getting anywhere. I work in a corporate environment where the networking infrastructure (particularly the DHCP) is all Windows stuff and the guy in charge of it understands very little about DHCP and nothing at all about Linux, so he's not

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Michael ODonnell wrote: I work in a corporate environment where the networking infrastructure (particularly the DHCP) is all Windows stuff and the guy in charge of it understands very little about DHCP and nothing at all about Linux, so he's not much use. I swapped the

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Michael ODonnell wrote: I work in a corporate environment where the networking infrastructure (particularly the DHCP) is all Windows stuff and the guy in charge of it understands very little about DHCP and nothing at all about Linux, so he's not much use. I swapped the

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Matt Brodeur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:32:46AM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: I did RTFM but can't find anything that tells how to direct the client to inform the server that the lease should expire. Not that I've ever done it, but what about spoofing

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Richard A Sharpe
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

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Richard A Sharpe wrote: the command on the window client is from the dos prompt issue the command: ipconfig /release That is the command to release the IP on the CLIENT. I was talking about removing an issued lease from the DHCP SERVER. And, releasing the IP from the