From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 18 9:25:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.mia.bellsouth.net (mail0.mia.bellsouth.net [205.152.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C2137B6C8 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pineypl@bellsouth.net) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-61-16-127.mia.bellsouth.net [208.61.16.127]) by mail0.mia.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id MAA21918 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:25:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <394CF819.ABD69B71@bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:26:01 -0400 From: Bob Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: Dynamic IP and ADSL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message