Depends on which dhcp client you are using -- check the man page for your particular client software. If there is no "renewal" feature built in, you will just have to stop and restart it.
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That's true.... use something like dhclient eth0 to acquire an IP address and then you use something like ifconfig eth0 down to release the IP address.
On solaris u can use
ifconfig hme0 dhcp release to release the ip address and the same can be verified using ifconfig -a and the ip address should be 0.0.0.0 and to get the ip address use
ifconfig hme0 dhcp start.
Substitute the apropriate interface name if it is not hme0
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Hi,
Request you to please let me know if any command is there in linux to release the ip of the ethernet card and renew the ip address of it again.
Similar to ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew in windows.
Regards
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