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Releasing a DHCP lease

Tue, 05 Jul 2005

I was getting a bogus IP from my ISP the other day and my FreeBSD firewall was having a tough time getting connectivity. I found this page:

<http://www.moundalexis.com/archives/000054.php>

which says this:

In this case the active interface is sis0, so here is the command to
run.

# /sbin/dhclient -r sis0

Now occasionally that may not work as quickly as you might like. If
you want to force it, you can restart the networking components by
hand.

# /etc/netstart

Saved my bacon!