From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 16:13:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (oddjob.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF0637B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA34670; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:13:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: erich alfred heine Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AT&T@Home and installation dhcpClient In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG check out www.freebsddiary.org... there is an article on getting freebsd to work with @home cable service... works like a charm. -philip On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, erich alfred heine wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I currently run linux and am trying to switch to freebsd. During > installation however, i cant get dhcp to configure my network right. > I subscribe to AT&T@home service, which uses dhcp. With this service i > need send the dhcpd my hostname that they give me. The way i do this in > Linux is: > > dhcpcd -D -h > > I assume this is for some sort of authentication purpose. > > Anyway i cant figure out how to set up the dhcpclient in the install > process to do this. > > Any help is much appreciated > Erich Heine > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message