martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2002-11-18 10:28:55 +0100]: > also sprach Kai Gro?johann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> [2002.11.18.1001 +0100]: > > The normal dhcp-client package includes a script /etc/dhclient-script > > which is invoked to do all the work. It provides hooks. And also, > > you can of course replace the file with your own. > > But dhcp-client requires an interface. My interface has a static IP > and yet I still want to obtain a lease (for other purposes). So > dhclient does not work. Idea1: It seems strange that you can't use the same interface to dhcp on the second time. Just render the client impotent so that it does not change the current parameters. Idea2: Create a virtual interface and use DHCP on that. Linux supports IIRC up to 255 virtual interfaces. (Now you will ask how to do that and I don't know off of the top of my head. Would need to look it up. But I recall it being a trivial ifconfig one-liner.) Bob
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