Rob, if you can find the leases file, you should be able to destroy it and hopefully get a new lease. Alternatively, you might try renewing the dhcp lease using a variant of your previous network topology: will different ARP resolution reflect back to the dhcp server? Anyway, I might be off-base but I thought .255 addresses were supposed to be reserved for some kind of LAN broadcast use? I also thought you can request a specific IP from most dhcp servers, and they will let you claim it, so long as it is in-range and unused...
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 14:34, Rob Hudson wrote: > Anyone know about dhclient on FreeBSD? > > at-home gave me an address ending in .255, and I think it is > interfering with the willamette.net network (I can't get to it now). > Is there a way to tell dhclient to get a new IP, and not accept the > same one? > > I can kill dhclient, but when I start it again, it gets the same IP > back. > > Thanks, > Rob -- -- Ben Barrett Software & Systems Engineer counterclaim Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193
