[Lilux-help] on/off problems with IP

[Alain Knaff]

begin  Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:31, Brent Frère quote:
> No. Ifconfig down up just stops the interface and restarts it. It does
> not triggers the dhcp client.

You can however do
 ifdown eth0
 ifup eth0

ifup does start the dhcp client. The advantage of using ifdown/ifup is
that it only concerns one interface, so you might dare to do it
remotely, logged in via another interface ;-)

Alain