From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 18 12:56:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09381 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 12:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09374 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 12:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id TAA01756; Sun, 18 May 1997 19:56:39 GMT Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 12:56:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Trevor Stuart cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: will it connect In-Reply-To: <337DE8F7.9C11CA36@brunnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 May 1997, Trevor Stuart wrote: > I have RH linux 4.1 and I can't get it to connect to my isp. Will > FreeBSD connect. My isp told me they are running Windows NT 4.0 and > they said they are using dhcp to authenticate. Either way it will DHCP is used to assign IP addresses to clients. I do not know if the client software is included but you probably want to look at http://www.isc.org/dhcp.html There are ports of the ISC and WIDE DHCP servers available on the FreeBSD ftp site. Personally I'd switch ISPs :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 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