I am running SuSE 6.3 on my laptop (dual-boot w/ win98, which is a new
experience for me!!! :/ ), and connect via 10baseT both at home and at
school. I have successfully connected in linux at both locations, and
both use UOnet, but there are different routers at each, and I am given
different IP addresses depending on where I connect...
Oddly enough(?? is it ??), UOnet leases me the same dynamic IP at each
location, so long as I sever the connection within 21 days (easy to do,
since the laptop is mobile!)... Well I recently had problems connecting
with either at home, until I was tipped off to run (in Win98) winipcfg,
which allows the manual release and renewing of IP.
Now I hate to ask here in this way, I really do, but
how do I attain this functionality in linux?
I hesitate to funk with /etc/dhcp.config since I have terrible luck with
manual config and have repeatedly found that I should be taking the "easy"
(ie click-click) route with SuSE. I have the correct DNS entries and
domain name entered into YaST, and they don't need to change for either of
my locations. But the bootp/dhcp just doesn't work at home; it seems to
be remembering only my ip-lease from the at-school router )=
Is there some simple tool I can keep on my desktop that will let me
release and renew easily?? This would also help me in hot-plugging and
unplugging the ether cable, without rebooting... currently my kernel gets
the goods at boot time.
I've run ifconfig, but am not clear on whether doing "ifconfig eth0
up/down" really releases and renews, it doesn't seem to really scan for
new but simply puts back up what it had before.
Thanks for your help!!
ben
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