On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:04:00AM -0600, Michael Rice wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, lasher wrote:
>
> > Hmm...how did you go about getting a different lease from dhcp? I am
> > having several friends in that area that cant get on..they can get tcp/udp
> > packets from 1 name server, but can only ping outside of that.
>
> I think the only way to get a new least from dhcp is for the server side
> to realize it's expired.
>
> The two ways of doing this are to 1) don't renew until the address has
> expired, and then request a new address, and hope that the old one isn't
> the first up on the list. or 2) have someone on the server side expire
> the address prematurely, presumably also reserving th known bad one to
> keep it from being reacquired.
The Motorola modem I have is capable of telling the dhcp server
to expire an old IP address. You have to go through a weird
rig-a-ma-roll (sp?) to get it to do it, though. Here's what
Time Warner's tech support told me to do, and it has worked every
time so far:
hold down the reset button on the back of the modem
disconnect the power cable from the modem (still holding down reset)
count to 10 (still holding down reset)
reconnect the power cable (still holding down reset)
let go of the reset button
re-run dhcpcd and rrlogin
gasp relief :@)
later,
- rick
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