On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 15:22, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> Is there some easy way I can tell from the
> commandline whether a DHCP server is alive on
> my network? Ideally it would be a very short,
> low impact little probe that would maybe just do
> (say) a DHCPDISCOVER and then report the results,
> preferably including the time it took to do it. TIA
Welp, if you still have the dchpcd client on your box somewhere, you
could use the -T flag... That's the testing mode:
-T Test case, when dhcpcd goes through the DHCP negotiation
sequence but doesn't actually configure the interface or
otherwise change anything on the system. Used primarily for
testing DHCP servers.
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