Re: BASIC: ip request w/out reboot

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

Hi, Neal--

On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Neal Hogan wrote:
> Is there a way to request an IP without rebooting? I have an old piece
> of shit that doesn't always connect at boot and I was wondering/hoping
> that there was something that I could run that will ask for an IP
> again (eg., /etc/netstart in oBSD).

On most networks, running dhclient will talk to a DHCP / BOOTP server  
and automatically configure a working IP:

  http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/dhcp.html

You could always fall back to using ifconfig to setup or change your  
IP address.

Regards,
--
-Chuck