Re: dh-client setup problems

[Bjorn Erik Gravingen <beg@deletrix.org>]

On Tuesday 26 February 2002 20:16, dman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:32:53PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
>
> | What are the pro/con of dhcp-client vs pump?
>
> pump is made by RH (IIRC), dh-client is made by ISC (same group who
> makes dhcpd and bind).  I've heard complaints in the past of pump not
> working.  Anyways, I figure that the folks who make dhcpd must know
> something about DHCP, and why not use their client if I'm using their
> server?
>

I've tried both, and have had problems with both. I have a dual boot
set-up and booting linux after a windows session I sometimes fail
to get an IP-address. My ISP is running a MS server of some kind
and using the "--win-client-ident" option in pump solved all my troubles.
(well, for DHCP that is ;-))

Unfortunately, I didn't find a way to set this option using the if-up
package, so I replaced it with a script.

Regards,

Bjørn Erik Gravingen