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Ifconfig DHCP IP

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VieiraR

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what is the command to release and renew a leased IP address in Linux. I tried the windows command ifconfig -release but did not work. Any help would be great.
 
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You should be able to stop and start your network services to force the DHCP client to broadcast a status/request again.

On RedHat do 'service network restart', other distros are different.

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