From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 13 11:27:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A81914FAC for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:27:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11Qap3-0005Lx-00; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:27:25 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "sariel" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to get a freebds bot to get an ip from a win98 DHCP server In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:36:01 MST." <002b01befcaf$19f7d020$0600a8c0@Sariel> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:27:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20580.937247245@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:36:01 MST, "sariel" wrote: > about useing a freebsd box as a dhcp server, nothing I can find about > how to get my freeBSD box to get it's ip from the server. Any help > would be much apreciated, Even directions to a how to that I might > have missed, I fully understand RTFM, I just need to know where the > "M" is :) :-) I must admit, I battled a little to find the document you need. It turns out that it's /etc/rc.network ... not very user-friendly. ;-) I think, basically, you can get away with this in your /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ed0="DHCP" Obviously, that ``ed0'' needs to be replaced with the name of your ethernet device. I haven't done this before, so don't be too disappointed if it doesn't work. Also note that you probably need quite a recent 3.x machine (any time after 1999/09/03). Oh, and you need to have an /etc/dhclient.conf . It can often be empty, and the dhclient.conf(5) manpage is huge, so try creating an empty one first. Good luck! Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message