How to renew an IP address?

[nejode]

What's the best way to renew an IP address? What would be the equivalent of "ipconfig /release" and "ipconfig /renew" in "ifconfig" (the man page for ifconfig doesn't give me an idea). Or should I restart a service? ... if so... how?

Thanks beforehand...

[randcoop]

Re: How to renew an IP address?

The equivalent (for eth0) is:

sudo ifdown eth0
sudo ifup eth0

If you're using eth1, then use that instead of eth0, of course.

[nejode]

Re: How to renew an IP address?

Thanks a lot randcoop! It worked fine.

...hasta la vista!...