On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Jack Malone wrote:
> I have to release the ipaddress of the cable modem from my isp an, it used
> to not be that way . I could switch back an fore from my windows an linux
> machine with the cable an not have to release the ip to get a lease on the
> other machine. what is the linux command to release the ip address
Jack,
The process which obtains your IP Address is dhcpcd (The DHCP Client Daemon).
If you do a 'ps ax | grep dhcpcd' you'll see the PID, along with the command
and it's arguments.
To terminate the process, and release the IP address back
to the DHCP server, issue 'dhcpcd -k'. That tells the currently running dhcpcd
process to release the IP address, and terminate itself.
Alan
