Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-20 Thread Mel
On Friday 17 October 2008 23:24:00 Nerius Landys wrote: I have an always-on FreeBSD box which is connected to the internet. My ISP is some cable company and the IP address is determined via DHCP; I used to always get the same IP address but recently the address seems to be changing very

Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-20 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:26:39PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Friday 17 October 2008 23:24:00 Nerius Landys wrote: I have an always-on FreeBSD box which is connected to the internet. My ISP is some cable company and the IP address is determined via DHCP; I used to always get the same IP address

DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-17 Thread Nerius Landys
I have an always-on FreeBSD box which is connected to the internet. My ISP is some cable company and the IP address is determined via DHCP; I used to always get the same IP address but recently the address seems to be changing very frequently whenever I reboot the machine. My problem is that

Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:24:00 -0700 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once the lease has been released, the client exits. I could put this into a crontab and run it every 12 hours. However, this does not seem like a