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Subject: Re: DHCP in the base 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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> I use DHCP for my net connection every day for over a year, and the WIDE
> client has performed very, very well for me.
> 
>     ``dhcpc fxp0''
> 
> Is all I do and all I need is /usr/local/sbin/dhcpc.  With the ISC client
> there is a VERY extensive config file needed.

Mine says:

interface "ep0" {
  send host-name "woof";
  prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
}

And that's only because I want it that way.  AFAIK, dhcpc doesn't 
allow you to send anything interesting in your request... whereas the 
above config says that I want to be called "woof".  This gives you 
the ability to configure a network with known machines as well as 
on-demand machines.

Also, dhcps (the wide server) insists on each IP number in a range 
being specified in dhcpdb.pool - at least this is the way I've ended 
up using it.  Dhcpd (the isc server) allows range specs, and also 
allows specifics based on the information sent in the initial REQUEST 
by the client.

I'm no dhcp expert, so feel free to knock any of these points - I may 
be missing something in the man pages.  It seems to me that the 
(optional) config complexity reflects the capabilities of both :-|

> -- 
> -- David    (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)
> 

-- 
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