Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:46:52 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: Paul MacKenzie <elephant@cgocable.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Script for dhcp-2.0b1p10 for FREEBSD 2.2.5 Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.980309154025.347D-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <35047944.6CAC6D9E@dal.net>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Studded wrote:
> > > 2) the dhclient.conf file does not exist. I copied the file from the
> > > install directory and tried to manually change it, but I had no real success..
> >
> > Aside from some rather obvious changes (domain search) the example
> > should work in most cases.
>
> I don't remember if I had to copy the file by hand or not. Did you
> install the port? You might give that a try if you didn't already.
I installed from the sources. And copied it by hand :) Even in the
port this (and startup) probably need to be manual since it doesn't
know whether you want client, server or relay. Could use a TYPE=xxx
argument to make I guess.
> > Make sure you have dhclient starting up at boot time and have
> > dhclient-script and dhclient.conf in /etc
>
> I learned a nifty trick the other day. Of course it's something that's
> been there all along, but it's new to me. :) In /etc/rc.network there
> are hooks at the beginning of the file to run scripts of the format
> /etc/start_if.${ifn} where $ifn is an interface number defined in
> "network_interfaces" in /etc/rc.conf. So, I put the following script in
> /etc/start_if.ep0:
On my laptop I use the pccard_ether_install/remove scripts that do pretty
much the same thing, good idea though.
Dan
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