dhclient ifconfig down up?

[David W. Hankins]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:05:44PM -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> I know this is probably a common question and I see the answer to why
> you do it in the scripts in the scripts themselfs but isn't there a
> better way?

I think the script hackery you suggest is the reason we do it that
way.  It's too long, and relies too much on too many external
features.

On some architectures, we 'ifconfig 0' to reset the v4 state on an
interface, which is another good, simple way to go about it.

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