Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:09:55 -0800 From: James Hewitt <jgh@drizzle.com> To: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X and DHCP Message-ID: <20011112230955.B10133@drizzle.com> In-Reply-To: <20011112225217.A10133@drizzle.com>; from jgh@drizzle.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:52:17PM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111122158010.18292-100000@geographos.astro.washington.edu> <20011112225217.A10133@drizzle.com>
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Alexey, Somehow I missed the words 'with dhclient' in your post... assuming you don't >need< the hostname to change, you can specify your hostname in /etc/rc.conf and in /etc/hosts as described below and it should solve your X problem (specifying the hostname in /etc/rc.conf will prevent dhclient from changing it). -James On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:52:17PM -0800, James Hewitt wrote: > Alexey, > > Assuming that you are using the user-land ppp (ie. ppp instead of pppd), > adding 'enable loopback' to the default section of ppp.conf might help. > > I am wondering though, what is causing your hostname to change, and > why it would be useful to have it change? The IP address and DNS name > of the PPP interface have little to do with the hostname, and if you > need a specific address for the hostname it is easy to just add the > hostname as an alias for localhost in /etc/hosts. > > -James > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:03:19PM -0800, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way to have X up and running when reconnecting to different ISP > > and changing net parameters with dhclient? Now it gets stuck when hostname > > is changed. > > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > -- > James Hewitt jgh@drizzle.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- James Hewitt jgh@drizzle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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