epoch1970 wrote: 
> I think I have read dhcping will do a DHCPRELEASE after acquiring an
> address. You should get the info you need and not risk address
> exhaustion. Killing dhclient on the contrary does not seem to be a good
> option.
> 
> If you're using dhclient to get an address, running dhclient -r
> afterwards should release the address. I believe ifdown (or such scripts
> built upon ifconfig) does the same.OK, dhcping -s 255.255.255.255 seems to do 
> the trick, even when the
current static ip address is way off base from the real subnet. 
Updating my script to use dhcping.  Thanks!


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