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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:26:01 -0400
From:      Bob Collins <pineypl@bellsouth.net>
To:        freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dynamic IP and ADSL
Message-ID:  <394CF819.ABD69B71@bellsouth.net>

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Bob Collins wrote:
> 
> I have an ADSL connection at home, and must use a dynamically assigned
> IP address. Is there a way to configure FBSD to use DHCP?

I shall answer my own question. As I was rather hasty asking questions
first and looking later. I had not liked the search results I was
getting for other matters on the archive, so I skipped them this time.
Dumb!!!

It seems dhclient is a very good tool for this. I read the dhclient
and dhclient.conf man pages a few times and built up my
/etc/dhclient.conf file . I made sure my 3Com nic attached to the adsl
model was set properly and was listed in the dhclient.conf properly.
>From a command line, I entered dhclient <carriage return> and there I
was. NICE!

The more I use FreeBSD the more I understand how good it
is. Changes like that, would normally require reboots and prayers,
FBSD just does it!

Bob "sometimes too hasty" Collins


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