dropping dhclient lease

[Peter Schuller]

> is there a means to stop dhclient and drop the lease at the DHCP
> server at the same time?

dhclient -r <interface>

If -r is not available it's probably because you're running an older version 
of dhclient. But if I recall correctly, FreeBSD (both 4.x and 5.x) comes with 
a version that has this feature, at least in their newer incarnations.

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