How do I configure the dhclient to persistently look for a lease in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • After a DHCP outage, a system lost its IP address and the only way to recover it is either rebooting the system or getting a console and restart the network. When logged in the system, found that dhclient was not running, thus, it was unable to get a new IP address after the DHCP server was recovered.
  • How do I configure the dhclient to persistently look for a lease?
  • In the event of DHCP server recovery after a crash, can DHCP client be configured automatically to fetch ip address from DHCP server and not give up?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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