On 2/24/07, Jonas Andradas <j.andradas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ludo, as far as I know, when a system (at least in Debian) gets its IP through DHCP, it does use a daemon (dhclient or dhclient3, if I am not mistaken). Thus, when this IP is freed, probably you loose the gateway's connectivity to the Internet. In my humble opinion, you have another option, which would be to have another machine be the gateway, and the firewall to be inbetween the gateway and your hosts. Kind regards, Jonas.
I see. I do have dhclient3 running, indeed. However, if I remove the sendigs script, I'd think dhclient3 doesn't get shut down properly, so it can't free the IP address. So if dhclient3 simply gets killed, the ISP isn't aware of it and thinks I'm still using the IP address, no? How else does the IP address get released? Thanks, Ludo