From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.18] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.18] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2247435 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:09:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4B8B21D0.7040500@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:09:20 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] DHCP: how to force a lease renewal ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/28/10 04:53 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote : > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:54:43 -0500 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >> Under Windows, it's nigh on impossible to do this *without* the command >> prompt (if someone has a way, please let me know - Access Connections, >> perhaps, if running a ThinkPad?). Just go to a command prompt and enter: >> >> ipconfig /release >> ipconfig /renew >> > > What about what you suggested for Mac - deactivate and then reactivate the interface? > It works, though sometimes (depending upon the machine), it can take an annoyingly long time, and on one particular W2K3 server I had to work on (static address), deactivating and then activating the interface bluescreened the machine consistently... -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------