Category: DHCP

  • Renew a DHCP lease

    Renew a DHCP lease: Renewing a DHCP lease via the Network System Preference Pane has the advantage of not dropping the connection, unlike switching the interface to BOOTP and back to DHCP. This command mimics that behavior.  (Via MacOSXHints.com)

  • Mac OSX DHCP debuging

    Once in a while you might want to dig deep into OSX’s dhcp client and find out what dhcp packet the server sent it. A quick command to spit out this info:# ipconfig getpacket en0This produces the following output: op = BOOTREPLY htype = 1 dp_flags = 0 hlen = 6 hops = 0 xid…