From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 18 16:24:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA18721 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18705 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id RAA15896; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:23:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199706182323.RAA15896@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: DHCP client? To: proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:23:22 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199706181732.MAA03381@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at Jun 18, 97 12:32:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi all, > What are the chances that FreeBSD will be able to support dhcp as > a client, now or in the near future? The reference implementation of DHCP from the Internet Software Consortium should be pretty easy to bring up on FreeBSD. How this would link in to configuring your network interface(s) I haven't explored. The software is *very* portable, we managed to bring it up on the VxWorks real-time OS in a couple of days. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com