Hi misc,
I've been reading dhclient(8) but still it is not clear to me if
dhclient(8) is supposed to stay in the background to automatically
renew leases. In the manual page it says:
-d Forces dhclient to always run as a foreground process. By de-
fault, dhclient runs in the foreground until it has configured
the interface, and then will revert to running in the back-
ground.
So apparently dhclient(8) should be kept in the background waiting for
leases to be renewed. However, if I run "ps ax" I can't see anything
that looks like dhclient(8) is running in the background at all. How
is this supposed to work for DHCP leases for cable/residential users
that are not guaranteed to always keep the same IP?
Thanks in advance.
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