So I decided to replace pump with dhclient, mainly because pump has
trouble when you kill it and start it again (which is what happens
when you do ifdown eth0 ; ifup eth0).
So I kill pump and start dhclient, which also fails to start. Why?
Because when pump dies, it manages to hog the socket 0.0.0.0:68, which
is what a dhcp client needs to listen on.
So now I can't start *any* DHCP client, my IP address is going to time
out, there will wailing and gnashing of teeth and I'll have to reboot
the box... unless... one of you brave souls can tell me how to tell
the kernel to forget about 0.0.0.0:68 so that dhclient can listen on
it.
Suggestions?
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