From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 11 06:22:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA03076 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 06:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [207.107.138.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA03071 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 06:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.8.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id JAA07667 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:22:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:22:58 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Wish List Item: DHCP for Instsall Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... I'm currently working in an academic environment, and we have, essentially, campus wide ethernet (the residences themselves are wired in). This morning, one of the students asked me about installing FreeBSD on his PC, using the FTP install, and had a slight problem... IPs on our network are fed by DHCP, so setting up his ethernet card to be on the network required my intervention in order for him to have a static IP temporarily, to perform the install. I haven't heard much talk about DHCP under FreeBSD, but has anyone thought about, or looked into, the possibility of using DHCP for both the install, and as part of the standard 'runtime'? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@hub.org Systems Administrator @ hub.org scrappy@freebsd.org