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[Sheflug] DHCP lease renewals

Hi all,
    Sgrunt, we had a network outage today, and my server lost its
network connection, which it gets from the university through DHCP.
The lease is renewed every 10 1/2 hours, but because of the network
outage, the computer was not respoding to pings and so on. Since I do
remote admin (ssh and yoú're in), I couldn't invoke pump manually, and
I had to reset the machine and restart it, ruining my ever-growing
netcraft profile
<http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=skint.shef.ac.uk&submit=Examine>

    Apart from renewing the pump lease every 15 minutes or so
automatically (or waiting for 10 1/2 hours), is there a way of dealing
with this automatically? I know of things like heartbeat, but they
seem to be far too advanced to deal with these little annoyances.

    Cheers,
    José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
Tel: +44 114 222 5582			Radar & Communications Group
FAX; +44 870 132 2990			Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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