[plug] Rebooting my box to make changes to DHCP`

[John Summerfield]

> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already
> in u
> se
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already
> in u
> se

Typically this means it's already running. If it's not, the error should 
go away RSN, and certainly sooner than it would take to reboot.


> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: exiting.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd:
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: exiting.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: dhcpd startup failed
> 
> I have two IP's bound to eth0 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.254 (box is running
> IPMASQ and operating as an Internet gateway). My question is why do I need
> to do a restart of the machine in order to bring dhcp up again ?

I don't recall that I had to when I replaced dhcpd. All I remember doing 
was stopping the old one, starting the new.

If all you've done is change config files, then this should suffice:
	killall -HUP dhcpd
or perhaps (thus is RHL) something like this:
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd stop
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd start
or for newer RHL
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd restart

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Cheers
John Summerfield
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