Explicit DHCP request

[Javasnob]

Hello everyone,

I often switch my machine's connection between two seperate networks for various reasons I won't go into, but I was wondering if there's a way to explicitly request an IP address from a DHCP server without rebooting.

Thanks in advance!

[Roxoff]

You can just start your networking again, depending on distro try:

service network restart

or

/etc/init.d/network restart

do either as root.

[jaboua]

Or, if you use BSD style init:
/etc/rc.d/network restart

or

/etc/rc.d/dhclient restart

...or something similar

[borromini]

Slackware: # dhcpcd -kn

[Javasnob]

I must have screwed something up pretty bad...now I can't do any networking at all, and even if I reboot, eth0 is still down on startup...What did I do?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[borromini]

# ifconfig eth0 up
#dhcpcd
# dhcpcd -n
# ifconfig eth0