From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 29 8:41:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from assaris.sics.se (dyna225-094.nada.kth.se [130.237.225.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43FF537B719 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:41:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from assar@assaris.sics.se) Received: (from assar@localhost) by assaris.sics.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA28659; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 17:42:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from assar) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Warner Losh , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuration profiles References: <200007290000.SAA61365@harmony.village.org> <5lk8e5xhir.fsf@assaris.sics.se> From: Assar Westerlund Date: 29 Jul 2000 17:42:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "29 Jul 2000 14:38:15 +0200" Message-ID: <5l4s59vt7r.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > If you have a DHCP server available and either control it yourself or > are very friendly with the admin, yes. But DHCP servers aren't always > available (or practical), and even when they are, you don't always > control them. Actually, I think that was my point. You can configure dhclient so that when it does not find a DHCP server, it will take one of the leases from its database. In other words, you can make that part (address, routers, netmask, name servers, ...) work the same way when the network has a DHCP-server as to when it does not. So, you don't need a DHCP-server to make use of dhclient. > There's a whole real world out there, and it won't always let you do > what you want. You don't need to tell me. :-) And yes, I know there are lots of other stuff to configure, but having dhclient taken care of some of the stuff is a good beginning, at least for me. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message