[H-GEN] RH 7.2 PCMCIA Boot and Dynamic IP address renewal

[Robert Kearey]

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Hilton Travis wrote:

> I am about to convert my trusty laptop over from Windows XP to RedHat
> 7.2 and Ximian Gnome Desktop so it will be more at home on my home
> network which is slowly but surely becoming Linuxized.  

Good for you!

Careful though - once you become Ximianised, up2date won't work correctly.

[pcmcia bootnet problems]

> Any ideas, because I am really stuck on this one.

Try the errata boot images.

> 2. In Windows, I can type "ipconfig /release" and "ipconfig /renew" to
> release and renew the IP address that has been dynamically assigned to
> the NIC.  I have tried searching for a way to do this on Linux, but have
> so far been unsuccessful.  It seems neither dhcpcd nor ifconfig support
> this functionality, and I thought that dhcpcd would be the obvious
> choice.  Does anyone know of a way to release/renew the IP without
> rebooting the machine?

man ifconfig

Or you can just use service network restart, which will do the same job 
by using the appropriate scripting to bring thing up and down in order, 
and so on and so forth.

> HiltonT

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