Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:58:00 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Steven S Shapiro <shappy@MIT.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP Support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <34FB1D58.216B8579@san.rr.com> References: <199803021629.LAA19799@m1-142-3.MIT.EDU>
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Steven S Shapiro wrote: > > Hi, I am currently running a FreeBSD server. However, I'm supplying > the server's network configuration with static IP addresses and such > that change (since the ISP uses DHCP). I was wondering if FreeBSD has > DHCP support or how I can deal with this? Thanks for your help. Just about any "add-on" feature that you can imagine is available through the FreeBSD ports collection. :) I use and highly recommend the ISC dhcp client, specifically /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp2. Like most unix things the configuration can be a trial, but once it's up and running it works extremely well. If you need dhcp to set your machine's hostname please feel free to mail me privately and I'll send you the patch I have to the dhclient-script to do this. If you need it, more information about the ports collection is available at http://www.freebsd.org. You may find it most convenient to put the command to start the dhcp client as the first line in /etc/rc.network. Alternatively, you can put it in /etc/rc.local and start services that don't work properly till after the interface is configured (like xntpd and sendmail) in rc.local after xntpd instead of using the configuration in /etc/rc.conf for those items. Hope this helps, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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