Description of Problem:

I detected a rare problem when using DHCP network configuration on Red Hat
7.2 kernel 2.4.9-13 with dhcpcd client. After changing a networking
interface configuration from DHCP to static, both IP addresses: the old one
and the new one, keep working, but ifconfig only shows the old
configuration. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

I 'm not sure who that bug belong. I running a normal system with dhcpcd
8.3.18pl8 release 13

How Reproducible:
On Red Hat Linux 7.2 environment without or with updates made (up to Dec
24, including the kernel package). 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure an eth0 interface to use DHCP service (with netconfig tool)
(dhcpcd is the default client on 7.2)

2. Change the configuration from dhcp to static using netconfig, assigning
valid information on every field. At this point I verified that the
network-script file ifcfg-eth0 was changed properly.

3. Restart the network interface.
  # service network restart

4. Now, after typing "ifconfig" I can see that the interface's IP address
is the same that the DHCP server gave before the change to static conf.

5.  Worse: When I ping the interface, both IP addresses, the static and the
dynamic one, respond!! Connections to both can be established too.

6. After looking to the proccesses list I can see that the dhcpcd daemon is
still running. When killed it (using kill or using the "-k" dhcpcd option)
the problem continued.

7.Change the configuration again, from static to dynamic, and the problem
persist: both IP address functions OK and ifconfig shows DHCP address only.

8.After a reboot everything started functioning OK (with the static IP
address).

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