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How to Renew Your DHCP IP Address on Linux

April 7th, 2009 Masao Leave a comment Go to comments

If Synergy fails for you with this error: “Server refused client with name XXX”, then your IP might conflict with another machine on the same network.

Here’s how to renew your IP on Linux:

### Release your current IP
$ sudo dhclient -r

### Request a new IP
$ sudo dhclient
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