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Date:      Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:35:37 +0500
From:      "Pete Young" <peteyng@home.com>
To:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Moving from a static to dhcp
Message-ID:  <20010401013005.YMEK20157.femail1.rdc1.on.home.com@asus>

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> I'm having a hard time finding some documentation for this move.  I'm
> using a 4.2 stable kernel.  I tried changing ifconfig_vr0 in rc.conf to
> "DHCP" and making the change to dhcp in /stand/sysinstall but I've
> obviously missed something because I'm not getting an address from
> @home, my cable modem connection.  I've looked around and found some
> things but they've been fixes for much earlier kernels.
> @home is changing all static users so it might be a good time for an
> artical on the subject.
> Thanks,
> Mike Wilson

You need to send your Client ID to the dhcp server.  In /etc/dhclient.conf
add the line

send dhcp-client-identifier	"your client id";


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Pete Young  peteyng@home.com


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