From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 18:00:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15930 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15916 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA09619; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:00:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Hunter, Steven" cc: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I configure FreeBSD to use bootp to get IP? In-Reply-To: <29AF27A27BF@coral.indstate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Hunter, Steven wrote: > Our sysadmins are a little paranoid, and won't give out fixed IPs. > Sooo, I need to get my FreeBSD box to request an IP from a bootp > server. How is this accomplished? Any and all help/suggestions are > welcome. Thanks! Install either the ISC or Wide DHCP port. Both include a DHCP client that will fall back to bootp. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message