From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 01:56:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA25362 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dog.farm.org (gw-hssi-2.farm.org [209.66.103.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA25357 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dog.farm.org!dk) Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id BAA29844; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:51:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:51:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199712010951.BAA29844@dog.farm.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcp client for freebsd? Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <18630.880944878@time.cdrom.com> you wrote: > > Has anyone done or started work on a DHCP client for FreeBSD? I noticed that > > there's one for Linux now (dhcpdc-0.70)...? > There are numerous ones for FreeBSD, not least of which being the one > from the WIDE project which has been around for ages, but I also > noticed that a client is in the NetBSD sources and would probably > be easy to bring across on account of the fact that it's already > conveniently bmake'd and all. :-) There is also a dhcp client in newest development snapshot of isc-dhcp, available at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-971122.tar.gz client scripts are provided for bsdos linux nextstep freebsd netbsd solaris Note: this snapshot release can still have some bugs in server part, the previous beta (see ports/isc-dhcp/ is considered more stable.) -- "Typically, I don't use JAVA -- I think that strong typing is for weak minds (and lazy compiler/interpreter writers)." -- Terry Lambert