From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 8:44:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (b76168.upc-b.chello.nl [212.83.76.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA5E37B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4910849A25; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:44:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3AE549A23; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:44:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:44:10 +0100 From: Axel Scheepers To: David Kelly Cc: Peter Harmsen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp client Message-ID: <20011122174410.B61433@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: <200111220103.fAM13SU68911@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111220103.fAM13SU68911@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:03:28PM -0600 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:03:28PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Not only can FreeBSD connect to your ISP via DHCP but it can NAT and > DHCP for any other computer in your house without the ISP knowing. > Everything needed is included in the standard install. However I don't > recommend running a DHCP server for a little internal net. Why not ? I have 3 servers and 2 clients and occasionally a laptop connected to my network. I like the fact that I only have to put DHCP in the ifconfig line, imagine some friends coming over, it just keeps things simple as it should :) -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net ascheepers@vianetworks.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ What this world needs is a good five-dollar plasma weapon. ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message