Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:25:14PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > Running a liveCD system. Which one? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 19, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Ken Irving wrote: You can do what you want, but I think most DHCP servers expect the clients to comply with periodically re-upping the lease. I'm not sure, but I think the lease period is probably specified by the server when the ip is granted. Read the manpa

Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:04:34PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:25:14PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: >>> >>> Running a liveCD system. >>> >>> At the first boot ip-address is obtained via DHCP >>> The ip-address is changed to a sta

Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:46:59AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:25:14PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > > > Running a liveCD system. > > > > At the first boot ip-address is obtained via DHCP > > The ip-address is changed to a static ip-address > > (does work) > > > > After

Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:25:14PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: Running a liveCD system. At the first boot ip-address is obtained via DHCP The ip-address is changed to a static ip-address (does work) After sometime, the system renews the DHCP lease, is

Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:25:14PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > Running a liveCD system. > > At the first boot ip-address is obtained via DHCP > The ip-address is changed to a static ip-address > (does work) > > After sometime, the system renews the DHCP lease, > is there a way to stop this rene

DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
Running a liveCD system. At the first boot ip-address is obtained via DHCP The ip-address is changed to a static ip-address (does work) After sometime, the system renews the DHCP lease, is there a way to stop this renewal? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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 i

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 pe

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