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Re: Where does One Disable dhclient?



On Monday 01 February 2010 07:18:13 Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	This is kind of a strange problem. I have one Debian
> system in which dhclient is broken. I can configure the network
> interface manually with ifconfig but dhclient starts grinding
> unsuccessfully at boot time and I can never quite get it to quit
> trying. It only succeeds in unconfiguring the interface to the
> point that it kills all communication.

man 5 interfaces

Edit /etc/network/interfaces to not use dhclient, or pass specific options.  
Some dhclient configuration can't go in /etc/network/interfaces and need to go 
in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf.

This is from memory, I do not currently use dhclient has my DHCP client.
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