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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | The dhcpcd -n switch doesn't appear to be working. | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 | Reporter: | Joe Harmon <jharmon> |
| Component: | Network | Assignee: | Peter Poeml <poeml> |
| Status: | VERIFIED INVALID | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | RC 4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
That's normal. Renewing doesn't mean that the address changes. It just means that the lease is "extended". |
According to the man pages for dhcpcd, the dhcpcd -n switch is supposed to cause a renewal of the dhcp connection. ----- -n Sends SIGALRM signal to the dhcpcd process that is currently running which forces dhcpcd to try to renew the lease. If dhcpcd is not running, the flag is ignored and dhcpcd follows the nor‐ mal startup procedure. ----- What I did was I had my ethernet connection setup to pick up a dhcp address. While eth0 was connected I opened a terminal and su - to root. I then ran dhcpcd -n. After runnign the switch I ran ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0. I received the same IP address.