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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatekeeper.wj.com!bali.seg.wj.com!not-for-mail From: alan@bali.seg.wj.com (Alan Strassberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DHCP & 2.1.5-RELEASE Date: 7 Mar 1997 19:17:34 -0800 Organization: Watkins-Johnson Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5fqloe$5sm@bali.seg.wj.com> References: <lhcwwrj26gp.fsf@bio.bu.edu> <5fpgqk$s4f@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: alan@wj.com NNTP-Posting-Host: bali.seg.wj.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36791 In article <5fpgqk$s4f@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk> wrote: >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. Running 5.14 of the ISC DHCP with FreeBSD 2.1.5 here, works great. Grab it from www.isc.org . alan >> 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 ! -- alan@wj.com