Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:05:00 -0500 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: using dhcp on a laptop that normally has its own name & IP Message-ID: <200203011705.g21H50O03560@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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My laptop is normally plugged in here at my desk, with a well-defined and permanent name & IP. I also have a second kernel, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/hosts for when I need to use ppp at home. The library at our mane campus has laptop sockets which use DHCP. I tried to use this, with very limited success. I brought down fxp0 with ifconfig, and then used /stand/sysinstall to do a dhcp network configuration. It successfuly pick up an IP address, but I couldn't do anything more than ping (so it found the nameservers, too). Any attempt to use telnet, the web, ftp, or hit a mailserver just plain failed. What else do I need to know to do this? thanks hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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