You are a technician for a small city IT department and you

You are a technician for a small city IT department, and you have just repaired and brought up a DHCP server that recently went down. You get a complaint from a customer serviced by this DHCP server that he cannot connect to the network. You suspect his computer has not automatically acquired an IP address since the DHCP server was restored. You go to his computer and open a command prompt. What command do you issue to get the computer to request an IP address?

A. ipconfig

B. ipconfig /all

C. ipconfig /renew

D. ipconfig /restore

Solution

C. Technically, you’d issue the ipconfig /release command first to make sure the NIC isn’t bound to an incorrect IP address, but to specifically request a new IP address from a DHCP server, use the ipconfig /renew command.