From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 20:30: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D009637B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA52509; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:19:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:19:09 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Jeff Williams Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, michaele@mxim.com Subject: Re: Engabling the DHCP client. In-Reply-To: <3C09A523.BE939A61@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Jeff Williams wrote: > Um, the DCHP man page on the web is fine, except I'm confused about two > things: > 1: How to you EXECUTE dhcpclient? Where do I put the issuance of the > execution command? The executable is dhclient It takes an interface argument (which is good to add), e.g.: dhclient xl0 > 2: How or where do I locate the dhclient.conf default file? It is NOT > currently located in > my /etc directory now, and I have no clue as to where to find it.... You can just create it in /etc. Just touch dhclient.conf If you want to be specfic about anything (an empty file is usually adequate), man dhclient.conf. If you want to start dhclient on boot, see the syntax for the two lines containing dhcp. The flags for dhcp would be the interface (xl0 in the above example) you want dhclient to use. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message