From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 28 00:15:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA14116 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA14111 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id HAA00749; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 07:15:47 GMT Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:15:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Matt Brunell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP client In-Reply-To: <342DBD3D.313E@uwplatt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Matt Brunell wrote: > named, I get the message 'network is unreachable'. I _think_ I need a > dhcp client package or a port. I've read a bit a documentation and it > says a bit about wide and isc dhcp servers that also support client > stuff, but I'm confused about what exactly to do. I've also seen people > referring to bootp, but nobody says what bootp is exactly. Help. ISC-DHCP has a client (in the beta package) that works well with FreeBSD (the NetBSD client). It leaves a lot of temp files in /tmp (one for every lease timeout) but otherwise works fine. http://www.isc.org/ and look for DHCP What the DHCP client does is send a broadcast request to any server to learn its IP address, gateway, etc.. and then set them via ifconfig and arp Basically an advanced bootp client. It allows you to use a totally generic /etc in a LAN, or to pick up your address in things like cable inet access. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82