begin Daniel L. Miller quote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:38:41AM -0800: > Running PUMP from a terminal window appears to configure my network adapter > correctly via DHCP. How can I make PUMP ( or anything else, for that > matter) run at system startup? You can edit /etc/network/interfaces, and change the `iface eth0' line: iface eth0 inet dhcp This will automatically launch a dhcp client on boot (technically, on ifup eth0). > Is there a better way of performing a DHCP client request than PUMP? There are a couple of DHCP clients packaged for Debian; pump is (I believe) the default, I prefer dhcp3-client, as it gives more informative messages when something goes wrong. Both work fine in my experience. M
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