From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 2 14:19:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (pita.cisco.com [171.71.68.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4488C37B40A for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:19:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from gypsy.cisco.com (sjck-dial-gw5-128.cisco.com [10.19.238.129]) by cisco.com (8.8.8-Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19458; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:19:09 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20011102140833.034f9010@pita.cisco.com> X-Sender: mahan@pita.cisco.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:18:56 -0800 To: Andrew Gallatin From: Patrick Mahan Subject: Re: Setting up DHCP server on FreeBSD Alpha Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15331.5873.86844.642724@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20011102133603.00ae2b70@pita.cisco.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20011102133603.00ae2b70@pita.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:58 PM 11/2/01 -0500, Andrew Gallatin spoke: >Patrick Mahan writes: > > All, > > > > Is there a DHCP server included with FreeBSD? The man page > > as described in dhcp-options(5) does not exist on my machine, > > nor is it accessible through your html man pages, this > > page (dhcpd(8)) is non-existant. > > > > Also, I am unable to locate the server image on my machine > > using find / -name "*dhcp*" -print -follow. This only turns > > up the dhcp client. > > > > A man -k only turns up pages related to the dhcp client. > > > > I would like to get DHCP implemented which would let me keep > > my laptop config settings using DHCP. > >Install one of the dhcp servers from ports. This really belongs on >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Then I will submit it to that list. I am hesitant to install one from the ports if there should be one provided with the OS. > > Also, when I use the pacakage install in /stand/sysinstall, it > > can only find a few packages to download. This seems to be > > because the package index file (/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/ > > packages-4-stable/INDEX) seems to be a truncated form of the > > one found on the i386 side of the tree. > > > >Yes, I think that fewer alpha packages were built due to resource >constraints. Build from ports. Actually an examination of the directory packages-4-stable/ shows a pretty full directory compared to what the INDEX file contains. I was able to locate packages for bash and emacs with a little searching. So who do I report this too for updating that file? I don't mind building when needed, but I would much rather install than compile. Thanks for the reply, Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message