Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:32:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org, kalin@el.net, Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, cristiano.deana@gmail.com, Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 Message-ID: <200602041332.04930.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060203150638.25784e85.lists@yazzy.org> References: <52993.24.90.33.115.1138913403.squirrel@mail.el.net> <20060203133917.GK44469@pegasus.dyndns.info> <20060203150638.25784e85.lists@yazzy.org>
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--nextPart2049723.zaIcnQfvPW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 04 February 2006 00:36, Marcin Jessa wrote: > What if you take your laptop to an university to hold a lecture and you > are unable to run dhcp? None of the students know of the IPs avaliable > in the range. > Some systems disallow traffic unless your MAC-address is registered in > their database. Then they open up their firewall for you. > Etc, etc... > Use your imagination. The manual configuration was suggested as a short-time work around to allow= =20 you to install the ISC DHCP client and then use that (for a longer term wor= k=20 around). ISTR DHCP servers will try and ping and address before giving it out so if = you=20 steal one then it probably won't be reassigned. Obviously this isn't a long term solution, and in some circumstances (like = you=20 suggest) it won't work, but it IS acknowledged as a bug.. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2049723.zaIcnQfvPW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD5Bks5ZPcIHs/zowRAl65AJ0c/FtOjiLLK+/s+EBiMSS/1KhdQwCdEXaF 9QGI6C2O7de5Wh1rEakHWdo= =+TLk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2049723.zaIcnQfvPW--
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