Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

[Matt Brodeur]

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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:32:46AM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
 
>  I did RTFM but can't find anything that tells how to direct the
>  client to inform the server that the lease should expire.

   Not that I've ever done it, but what about spoofing the MAC of your
old NIC long enough to issue a DHCP release?  I'm not sure of the
exact mechanism, but it should be possible.  dhclient has a '-r'
option to release the current lease.

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Matt Brodeur                                                            RHCE
MBrodeur at NextTime.com                                http://www.NextTime.com

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.
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