in windows you pull up a dos prompt and enter:

"c:\> ipconfig/release"

"c:\> ipconfig/renew" to renew ip with dhcp.


well, what about linux? is there a command or a service to stop/start?
i am using suse 9.2 with no router. thanks in advance...

thanks anyway, i found out in another post.

QUOTE:
david_ross
Moderator:
Just run "dhclient" - if you have more than one card then you can choose with "dhclient eth0"

or

QUOTE:
susefan
Newbie:
There are two packages available, dhclient, and dhcpcd. Suse 9.2
installs dhcpcd.

Fortunately, suse provides some shell-script front ends,
ifup-dhcp and ifdown-dhcp. These scripts figure out which
package is installed and then issue the proper command, with
the proper arguments for the package installed.

So I run:
ifdown-dhcp ath0
ifup-dhcp ath0

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