From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 16:19:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16739 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.fisicc-ufm.edu ([209.198.197.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16715 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@mailhub.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: from fisicc-ufm.edu (samsara.fisicc-ufm.edu [209.198.197.197]) by mailhub.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA27114; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:22:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla@mailhub.fisicc-ufm.edu) Message-ID: <361E45AC.6A86C41F@fisicc-ufm.edu> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 17:19:41 +0000 From: Oscar Bonilla X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey Bernt CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP References: <000701bdf3b2$06e7ba60$2e8ad38c@cyberc.oit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG did you write the script that the man page suggests? the dhcp client i have doesn't do much, it just calls a script (that you have to write) with some environment variables set. i not on my laptop right now, but if you haven't written any scripts i can email my script to you. it doesn't implement the full thing, it was just a quick hack, but it has worked fine. -oscar Jeffrey Bernt wrote: > Help. I have my computer on a network, using a D-Link 220 (ne2000 > compatible) under FreeBSD 2.2.7, my network (through my dorm room) > uses dhcp. I can not get dhcp (wide or isc, both of which are in the > distribution cds) to work correctly. It will not even acknowledge that > the dhcp server is out there, nor will it assign me an IP. Should I > just ask for a specific IP and set my Fbsd box to that IP? Any help > would be greatly appreciated. Also, has anyone had luck with doing > something like this?Thanks.Jeff Berntbernt@usa.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message