From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 8 18:20:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29089 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29073 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA20900; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:50:38 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807090120.KAA20900@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: pierced@geocities.com cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP Client In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jul 1998 19:05:09 CST." <000201bdaa0d$53563fa0$02000003@shane.wave.shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 10:50:38 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello, I've decided to switch from NT to FreeBSD for more speed and less > problems. Now I already re-partitioned the hard disk and then found out I > could notdirectly install from the net because my service provider needs > DHCP, so, I can for sure get it all up and running but when I do I need it > to use DHCP, is there something I can use for DHCP? The net/wide-dchp port has dhcpc which configures your an interface you give it. It can also change your hostname and/or your resolv.conf if you tell it. The net/isc-dhcp2 port has one too.. Actually whats a bit annoying is there is no program I've seen which gets a DHCP lease and actually tells you about it, instead of setting your interface up automatically.. (which means its a bastard to test a DHCP server) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message