Re: DHCP -- can anyone help?
On Tue, 14 Nov 1995 Matt_Hamilton@bangate.compaq.com wrote:
> Thanks to Mr. Bao Chau Ha, I now have my /dev/eth0 being recognized, but
> alas, still cannot get to my local tcp/ip network. I can ping myself, and
> my loopback device, but not anything else. The problem is that our tcp/ip
> system has been changed to use DHCP now, so I don't think my old static IP
> addresses for myself and the gateway are valid anymore. Does anyone know
> how I can set up my system to make use of DHCP? I'm not sure exactly how
> it works because windoze95 tends to hide things from you -- all I do for it
> is click a DHCP radio button in the tcp/ip setup; so I'm pretty ignorant on
> what it's actually doing. I do know (I think) that there's a DHCP server
> somewhere that dynamically assigns IP addresses to it's clients -- I'm
> assuming that's the way it works anyway. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Matt Hamilton Compaq Portable PC Division
> 713-518-3422 Ext 8-3422
> Chasewood1 C1456 MC 560401
> Internet address: Matt_Hamilton@Bangate.Compaq.Com
> "You know, there's an awful lot of people in this world who confuse
> breathing in and out with *living*"
>
>
DHCP is "like" bootp but it supports the concept of IP address "leases" -
this means that at boot-up a DHCP client asks a DHCP server for a lease
on an address which it may later release or which may expire.
I'm not aware that there is a DHCP client for linux.
What you need is a permanent lease from your admin, or a good ol' entry in
your network's host table.
For the record, the DHCP FAQ can be found at:
http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/comfaqs/dhcp.faq.html
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