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Re: DSL connection with DHCP



On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:42:48PM -0400, Phil Beder wrote:
| Hi 
| I need to connect to my DSL line.  I looked up information
|  about pppoe but documentation says if you have a DSL
|  router, use DHCP instead.  

Does your DSL provider use PPPoE or DHCP or a static IP?  Mine uses
plain old DHCP.

| We have a router,  anyone have pointers on DHCP
|  documentation?

First apt-get install dhcp-client.

Then put a line like
    iface eth0 inet dhcp
in /etc/network/interfaces.

-D

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