This has been a question alot of us newbies have... "What is the SuSE version of doing a ipconfig /release and then /renew?"

Tried the ifconfig eth0 down then ifconfig eth0 up without success. The eth0 device keeps the original ip address.

Someone mentioned running service network restart, which I am sure would do it, but that command is not valid for SuSE (at least it didn't work when I tried it)

I would really appreciate how to restart the network devices without rebooting (which is what I have to do right now to release the ip address)

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Try this.

# rcnetwork restart

good luck.

keep in mind that if you are pulling an IP via dhcp, you would have to out wait the lease time for a renewal (stop/start or restart) to give you a new IP.

if you are pulling an IP directly from your ISP, then you would have to call them to find out what the DHCP lease time is. their level 1 techs will not even have a clue as to what that is so you will have to get bumped up to level 2 techs to get that kind of information. not to mention in most ISPs level 2 should also have the ability to force an IP roll on you.

if you are pulling an IP from your router, then just go in and adjust the dhcp lease time. default for most routers is something around 24-48hrs. set it to 1min, then you can bring down your eth0 wait a min or 2, then bring it back up and you should then be able to pull a new IP.

good luck.

It depends on which dhcp-client SuSE is actually
using, but on my Slack-machine I can
dhcpcd -k
the client, which will first notify the server of its
intention to release the lease, and then destroy
its dhcp-cache.

I don't know the handles for dhclient or pump,
but I'm sure you can do similar things with those.


Cheers,
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