From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 18 17:20:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21410 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scapa.cs.ualberta.ca (root@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca [129.128.4.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ve6kik by scapa.cs.ualberta.ca with UUCP id <13061-3253>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:20:31 -0600 Received: by ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca via sendmail with stdio id for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:35:50 -0600 (MDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1997-Mar-5) Message-Id: From: kirk@ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca (Kirk Davis) Subject: Re: DHCP client? In-Reply-To: <199706181732.MAA03381@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at "Jun 18, 97 12:32:53 pm" To: proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:35:50 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] 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? > > Thanks, > Paul. > > -- > You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for > success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits > or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume > party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World. Check out wide-dhcp in the ports collection. There is a client in that package that is easy to configure and get going. --- Kirk