Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:44:44 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <19990209004444.D19070@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <E10A862-0000GY-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>; from Dom Mitchell on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 08:00:38AM %2B0000 References: <19990208142820.A9457@relay.nuxi.com> <E10A862-0000GY-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
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> What impact will this have on the rc files? How will it affect
> rc.conf, seeing as it overrides several values therein?
Most basic, you would have ``network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"'' as usual,
but no "ifconfig_fxp0="inet ...." line.
Rather you would have a ``/etc/start_if.fxp0'' file with:
/sbin/dhcpc fxp0
sleep 10
in it. If you want to assign your own hostname, you may continue to do
so in the normal manner. If you use ``dhcpc -n fxp0'', dhcpc will do
``hostname <...>'' with the hostname returned by the DHCP server.
If you want to specify your /etc/resolv.conf file, you may do so. Or use
``dhcp -r fxp0'' to create one for you.
> What happens if your lease expires and doesn't get renewed, or gets
> renewed with a different IP address?
You will get "no route to host" type messages.
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-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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