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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DHCP & 2.1.5-RELEASE
Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:47:16 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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References: <lhcwwrj26gp.fsf@bio.bu.edu>
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In article <lhcwwrj26gp.fsf@bio.bu.edu>,
tbuswell@bio.bu.edu (Theodore Buswell) writes:
>
> Has anyone gotten either of the DHCP clients in the ports
> directory to work with 2.1.5-RELEASE ? I tried both
> (ISC and WIDE) clients last night with mixed results.
> As far as I could tell, the ISC dhclient didn't do anything
> productive (no output at all to logs, ed0 still not configured).
> The WIDE client was really nice -- I used dhcpm to monitor what
> was going on, and dhcpc would send a request, get an acknowledgement
> but then would choke configuring ed0.
>
> My current method is to by hand startup dhcpm, run dhcpc in the foreground,
> wait for the response, kill dhcpc and dhcpm and manually configure ed0 and
> add the routes based on the output of dhcpm. Yes I know I could write a
> script to do this, but I'm trolling for something better..
>
> Anybody got anything better?
I've used wide-dhcp as a server, but havn't yet used dhcpc. You may be
better asking this question on freebsd-mobile (message cc'd).
If you don't have any luck, drop me some email. There was another
guy looking at this that (I believe) got it working, but his name's
on my machine at home.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !