Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:32:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org, kalin@el.net, Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, cristiano.deana@gmail.com, Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 Message-ID: <200602041332.04930.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060203150638.25784e85.lists@yazzy.org> References: <52993.24.90.33.115.1138913403.squirrel@mail.el.net> <20060203133917.GK44469@pegasus.dyndns.info> <20060203150638.25784e85.lists@yazzy.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Saturday 04 February 2006 00:36, Marcin Jessa wrote: > What if you take your laptop to an university to hold a lecture and you > are unable to run dhcp? None of the students know of the IPs avaliable > in the range. > Some systems disallow traffic unless your MAC-address is registered in > their database. Then they open up their firewall for you. > Etc, etc... > Use your imagination. The manual configuration was suggested as a short-time work around to allow you to install the ISC DHCP client and then use that (for a longer term work around). ISTR DHCP servers will try and ping and address before giving it out so if you steal one then it probably won't be reassigned. Obviously this isn't a long term solution, and in some circumstances (like you suggest) it won't work, but it IS acknowledged as a bug.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD5Bks5ZPcIHs/zowRAl65AJ0c/FtOjiLLK+/s+EBiMSS/1KhdQwCdEXaF 9QGI6C2O7de5Wh1rEakHWdo= =+TLk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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