From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 19:52:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (cm-24-246-28-166.toney.mediacom.ispchannel.com [24.246.28.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA7837B4CF for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAL3qKS92785; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:52:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200011210352.eAL3qKS92785@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions From: David Kelly Subject: Re: setting up dhcpd In-reply-to: Message from Sam Carleton of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:26:04 EST." <3A19EB4C.BC46FDCE@bigfoot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:52:20 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Carleton writes: > I need to install DHCP Daemon on my FreeBSD machine. Is there a > standard dhcpd that folks use? Where is it and where are the doc's for > it? What do you want it to do? Run as a client or a server? To get an address from an existing server simply type (as root): # dhclient your-interface where "your-interface" might be fxp0 or de0 or ed0 ... To make it work at boot, edit /etc/rc.conf and the ifconfig variable for your interface should be simply, "DHCP" as in ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message