Finishing up this Do shell script

Hey guys,
I am trying to wrap up this script, no pun intended. My goal is to run four commands. A DHCP release, a pause, a renew, then output of the DHCP server address. I am fine until the last command to get the output of DHCP server address.
Within the terminal, I can run ipconfig getpacket en0, and it will give me tons of info, including the DHCP server.
The Apple script errors out on that last command, and I would love the info grepped and outputted to a dialog box or a terminal window. Here is what I have so far. Any help is appreciated.
do shell script "sudo ipconfig set en0 BOOTP" with administrator privileges
do shell script "/bin/sleep 60"
do shell script "sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP" with administrator privileges and password
do shell script "ipconfig getpacket en0" with administrator privileges and password
I am doing this as we are moving to a different DHCP server, and my boss wants to verify the cutover happened.
Thanks,
DB

Hi DB,
   If I understand the "with administrator privileges" modifier correctly, it uses sudo without need for you to put it in the command. Thus if I'm correct in that regard, your use of sudo is redundant, although as you know, it will work. Second, the "ipconfig getpacket en0" command works for me without using sudo. I'm sure that's not true of the release/renew commands but it appears to be true of the last one. Of course it doesn't hurt to run the command as root so that certainly isn't the problem either.
   You could test this yourself but the problem appears to be that the exit status of the ipconfig command you posted is 1, which means an error. I know it returns nice data but the AppleScript interpreter sees the error and thus itself fails. There is a simple workaround that is a hack but it works. You can put more than one command in a "do shell script" statement by separating the commands with a semi-colon. Thus you can follow the ipconfig command with another command that succeeds. For instance, the following should work:
do shell script "ipconfig getpacket en0;:"
Here I've added a colon after the semi-colon. The colon is a shell command that does nothing but always succeeds.
   Of course the correct approach would be to figure out why ipconfig returns an error and fix the problem. I apologize but I don't use the command much so don't know what is causing the error.
Gary
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