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The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client, dhclient, provides a means for configuring one or more network interfaces using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, BOOTP protocol, or if these protocols fail, by statically assigning an address.

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How can dhclient be made namespace aware?

I am using namespaces to separate a few physical interfaces on a server. The routing works perfectly. Also I have a folder for each namespace in /etc/netns/ e.g. /etc/netns/namespaceA/resolv.conf so that DNS works fine as well. The problem arises…
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How to form protobuf resource part of http request body and test it through dhc client or postman for restful services

I have created a .proto message and I'm exposing a rest service which looks like this @Path("/test") public interface test{ @POST @Produces("application/x-protobuf") @Consumes("application/x-protobuf") public Response getProperties(TestRequest…
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What does dhclient do?

I had a server unable to connect to any network and while wrangling with it I found a temporary resolution on running this command: /etc/init.d/network restart && dhclient. However, I don't quite understand what exactly did the dhclient command do…
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Setting up virtual bridge: Cannot find device "br0"

Setting up a virtual bridge with Ubuntu with following config in /etc/network/interfaces auto brOffline iface brOffline inet static address 192.168.5.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 bridge_ports eth11 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0.0 pre-up ifdown…
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Papertrail throwing error as "dhclient: XMT: Solicit on eth0"?

In Papertrail, while accessing the link through browser, it will be capture in papertrail log, but unfortunately it is not capture. It keep on throwing error as "dhclient: XMT: Solicit on eth0" in centos server. Any idea to resolve this one? Aug 29…
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Docker set container IP addr from DHCP/DNS automatically

While I found few options to force docker containers to have IP addr that match my DNS, I did not found any method to enforce a permanent IP addr automatically at "docker start". Currently I have a small script that retrieves IP addrs from my DNS…
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DHClient override renewal time

My ubuntu machine is receiving a renewal time of 7000 seconds from the DNS server. I want to change this on the ubuntu machine to be longer via the dhclient.conf. I can't change the dhcp sever. However all the examples I try don't seem to be the…
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How to automatically get information about dhcp address renewal?

I need to control dhcp address renew actions on Linux in my application written in C. I am trying to find the best way to retrieve this information from the system. So far I have actually come up with only one way - parsing the system logs and…
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Problems with dhclient arm cross compilation

I'm trying to connect to a wireless network from a Dart card (which is like a Raspberry Pi with a iMX6 CPU) using a WiFi dongle. I followed the accepted answer here. When I tried: wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c spark_wifi.conf -D nl80211 && dhclient…
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initramfs ipconfig vs networking dhclient DHCP request using different parameters

I have a dropbear setup that allows me to remotely ssh and unlock the encrypted luks volumes holding the root filesystem. This involves first a DHCP request by initramfs to get an IP address, and later another DHCP request after the system has…
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Why the Internet connection may be interrupted after the first launch /usr/sbin/dhclient?

I have debian-11.6.0-amd64-netinst installed on my PC. This PC is connected to the router by wire. After rebooting the PC and running /usr/sbin/dhclient for a while (about 10 minutes), the computer connects to the Internet, after which the…
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ovs-vsctl error while Streaming Video in Mininet

I am recently studying Mininet.And I watched a video about "How to Streaming Video in Mininet" this is its python code def myNetwork(): "Create a network." net = Mininet( topo=None, build=False ) info('*** Adding Controller\n') …
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Restricting DHCLIENT to one single interface

I have several interfaces in my system, which are already existing and configured with static IP addresses (ipv4). I want now to create a new virtual interface (with a vlan attached to it, so typically, tap (tap100, for example). When i run dhclient…
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How to fix dhclient from hanging in virtual hosts Mininet network simulation?

I'm trying to run a Mininet session on a virtualbox with Ubuntu 16.04.7 and I was successfully able to deploy a dhcp server within the session. Unfortunately, when I try to run the 'dhclient' command on any of the hosts created in the Mininet…
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Is it possible to run dhclient from C code without using system()?

I am going to write an application that will be able to manage Internet connection. Is it possible to run and stop dhclient from C code without using system() function?
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