Re: questions about DHCP

["Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com>]

>>>>> "JBJ" == Jens B Jorgensen <jjorgens@bdsinc.com> writes:
    >> (1) What Ethernet driver should I select for this NIC ? I got the
    >> details of the HW from Windows NT which the machine already has
    >> on it. Not sure if its a PCI or ISA NIC. Has anyone heard of this
    >> NIC ?
    JBJ>  Dunno. Sorry.

I selected one of the Digital XXX modules (I think it was de4x5.o)
during the install and it was detected fine.

    >> (2) How do I setup the system to use DHCP once the ethernet card
    >> is setup properly ? I never setup a machine to use DHCP but I am
    >> assuming that it isn't too tricky.
    JBJ>  Just install the dhcpcd package and in your
    JBJ> /etc/init.d/network put in a line to start up this daemon with
    JBJ> eth0 as an argument.
    JBJ> 

I couldn't get DHCP to work using the dhcpd package. On our network,
most of the DHCP clients are Win9*/NT workstations. I tried a number of
things in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file but still couldn't get DHCP to
work. In the end, I tried using the "dhclient" script:

 dhclient eth0

and it worked fine. What should I be putting in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file
? Can someone please post (or email to me directly) a
copy of their DHCP client configuration file ? Our network admins only
know about Windows so they haven't been any help to me in terms of
giving info about DHCP configuration. The only thing that they have told
me is: 

 (1) our default domain (I knew that already!)
 (2) the IP address of our DNS server (I knew that too from looking
     Windows Control Panel)

I am still running slink, but will upgrade to potato soon. But I would
like to have DHCP activated on boot time and don't like having to type
"dhclient eth0" every time.

Thanks.

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Salman Ahmed
ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com