I had a failure of my dhcp server over the weekend. After restarting dhcp services, I find that none of my Linux machines could recover their IPs without restarting their network service even after the lease time has elapsed. I use "static" dhcp so a machine's IP/DNS is really fixed. The dhcp service has been running now for a week and I'm still running into the stand-alone Linux box that has not recovered its IP. The box is running. dhclient is running. ifconfig shows that the eth0 device is initialized; it just lacks its IP. All the Windows boxes survived the dhcp outage. It appears that dhclient does not work properly on Linux. I assumed that dhclient would relinquish the IP after the lease time, then keep trying to request a renewal. But, apparently, it doesn't. It appears to have given up Ideas, anyone? Ken