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From: Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net>
To: Anthony Carmody <carmoda@interfaceergonomics.com>
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Subject: Re: DHCP client on 4.4
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:30:20AM +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running a DHCP server on my network. It has my FreeBSD box in question
> listed in the static address list. Should I now configure the FreeBSD
> machine to be a DHCP client or hard code the IP?
 
Hi,

If you've done something like 
host hostname {
	hardware ethernet 00:01:0a:12:13:33;
	fixed-address 192.168.0.10;
}
in your dhcpd.conf, you can leave the FreeBSD box at it's DHCP settings, e.g.
ifconfig_ed1="DHCP" in your /etc/rc.conf, it query the dhcpd server and it
will give back the information (you can check it with tcpdump if you like, look
for a line like A:192.168.0.10, G:your.gateway.address ...)

> 
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Gr,
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Axel Scheepers
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