Re: dhclient release a lease?

On Mon, 14 May 2018 19:36:12 -0400 Quartz wrote: > > Currently there is no facility in dhclient(8) to issue RELEASE > > messages. I had no recollection of adding such a thing, and a > > quick > > > confirmed there is no DHCPRELEASE related code. > > Ergh. OK thanks,

Re: dhclient release a lease?

Currently there is no facility in dhclient(8) to issue RELEASE messages. I had no recollection of adding such a thing, and a quick confirmed there is no DHCPRELEASE related code. Ergh. OK thanks, that's super annoying that it's not there. Which signal(s) are used elsewhere to trigger

dhclient release a lease?

How do I get dhclient to release its DHCP lease? I want to be clear that I'm not interested in having it RENEW the lease but RELEASE it- in other words send the signal to the DHCP server "I'm going bye-bye, go ahead and put this IP address back in your free pool". Other versions of dhclient