Annotation of embedaddon/dnsmasq/contrib/wrt/dhcp_release.1, revision 1.1.1.1
1.1 misho 1: .TH DHCP_RELEASE 1
2: .SH NAME
3: dhcp_release \- Release a DHCP lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server.
4: .SH SYNOPSIS
5: .B dhcp_release <interface> <address> <MAC address> <client_id>
6: .SH "DESCRIPTION"
7: A utility which forces the DHCP server running on this machine to release a
8: DHCP lease.
9: .PP
10: Send a DHCPRELEASE message via the specified interface to tell the
11: local DHCP server to delete a particular lease.
12:
13: The interface argument is the interface in which a DHCP
14: request _would_ be received if it was coming from the client,
15: rather than being faked up here.
16:
17: The address argument is a dotted-quad IP addresses and mandatory.
18:
19: The MAC address is colon separated hex, and is mandatory. It may be
20: prefixed by an address-type byte followed by -, eg
21:
22: 10-11:22:33:44:55:66
23:
24: but if the address-type byte is missing it is assumed to be 1, the type
25: for ethernet. This encoding is the one used in dnsmasq lease files.
26:
27: The client-id is optional. If it is "*" then it treated as being missing.
28: .SH NOTES
29: MUST be run as root - will fail otherwise.
30: .SH SEE ALSO
31: .BR dnsmasq (8)
32: .SH AUTHOR
33: This manual page was written by Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>.
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