Send a DHCP request to DHCP server to see if it's up and running dhcping man page

• -v Verbose, print some information.
• -i Use DHCPINFORM packets.
• -r Use DHCPREQUEST packets (default behaviour).
• -q Quiet, print nothing on the screen.
• -t maxwait Maximum time to wait for an answer from the server in seconds. Default is 3 seconds.
• -c <client-ip-address> Request this IP address. Note that this is also the IP address the answer will be sent to.
• -s <server-ip-address> Send the DHCP packet to this IP address.
• -h client-hardware-address Use this hardware-address in the DHCP request. It can be up to sixteen octets seperated by colons (i.e. 01:02:03:04)