Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 13:07:38 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: J H Mock <jmock@tampabay.rr.com> Cc: "ports @ freebsd . org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd port: isc-dhcp-2.0 Message-ID: <19990808130738.B42528@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <01BEE10F.0AE39A80@dt141n50.tampabay.rr.com>; from J H Mock on Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 12:06:04AM -0500 References: <01BEE10F.0AE39A80@dt141n50.tampabay.rr.com>
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> ok....I am a real new user of FreeBSD......I am trying to get my
> machine connected onto the internet. I am using a cable modem service
> that asigns an IP with a dhcp server. I, therefore, need to run a dhcp
> client. I found version 2 on FreeBSD.org and I have version 1
What version of FreeBSD are you using? (run ``uname -a'')
Version 3.2 and later has /sbin/dhclient in the base system.
> My problem is that I do not know how to enable the dhcp client. In
> what config file do I enable it???
create a file /etc/start_if.<interface_name> Its contents are simply:
/sbin/dhclient <interface_name> && echo -n ' dhclient'
> I can find no mention of dhcp in the rc.conf file. That seems to be
> where most of the networking decisions are at work.
It will be there in the future FreeBSD 3.3.
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-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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