On 2009-01-06, Anders Vquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I have been looking for information on how to release the current lease of > IP-adress. > > What should I di, where should I start, if I want to release the IP-adress?
In the answers given to you so far there's been a lot of guessing as to exactly what you want to do; hopefully this shows you and other readers that giving a little more information about the _ends_ not just one possible means you have thought of, is likely to get a more useful answer. Release is an optional part of DHCP but some servers won't reassign the IP address to a client with another MAC unless it happens. In that case the best option is probably to try another DHCP client from ports/packages. At least in the current OpenBSD version you have a couple of options; the ISC client allows this with the -r flag, and the WIDE client allows it with SIGUSR2. I have no idea when these were implemented and either or both may not work in the versions available for 3.8.
