Comment 6 for bug 290489

It seems like an issue with the router. Unfortunately I do not have
jurisdiction over the router so I couldn't answer your question. Having
dhclient "bombard" the router with DHCP discovers does not help however.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Chuck Short <email address hidden>wrote:

> @Neville
> Is there a router firmware that can solve this?
>
> Regards
> chuck
>
> ** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Triaged
>
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> [intrepid, hardy] Can't get DHCP offer without rebooting the OS
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290489
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>
> Status in “dhcp3” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem with getting DHCP offer after changing network settings
> from static to dhcp (or vice versa).
>
> /etc/network/interface file:
> iface eth0 inet dhcp --> iface eth0 inet static
> or
> iface eth0 inet static --> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> You can find all my console attempts to get it working in attachment file
> below (pay attention only to eth0, not wlan0 which was down).
>
> After changing /etc/network/interface file I tried (many times) for
> example:
> $ /etc/init.d/networking stop
> $ /etc/init.d/networking start
> $ /etc/init.d/networking restart
> $ ifdown eth0
> $ ifup eth0
> $ rm /var/run/dhclient*
> $ killall -9 -r dhclient*
> $ ifconfig eth0 down
> $ ifconfig eth0 up
> $ dhclient eth0
>
> ..but I was not successful at all until rebooting the whole OS. After that,
> everything worked fine again (dhclient etc.).
>
> Thanks in advance, Vojtech Vitek [V-Teq].
>

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Regards,
Neville Grech