Re: DHCP weirdness? broken?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:29:06 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote:

> 2011/2/3 David Gaudine
> 
>> On 11-02-03 5:19 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>  Me again.  Do you have dhcpc installed?  If so, try setting
>>>  SET_DNS='no'
>> in the config file.
>>
> no but well, I am really confused...
> 
> 1. removed all dhcp* pkgs
> 2. removed all dns* pkgs
> 3. removed all network-*  pkgs
> 4. rm -rf /etc/dhcp/ && rm -rf /etc/dhcp3/
> 
> 5. reinstalled 1 to 3
> 
> now I have
> ~# dpkg -l *dhc*|grep ^ii
> ii  dhcp-client 3.1.1-6+lenny4   DHCP client transitional package 
> ii  dhcp3-client 4.1.1-P1-15   ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
> ii  dhcp3-common 4.1.1-P1-15   ISC DHCP common files (transitional package)
> ii  isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-15   ISC DHCP client 
> ii  isc-dhcp-common 4.1.1-P1-15   common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
> 
> but everything works... with no dhclient.conf

Maybe it's not required if your DNS server provides all the information 
for setting up the network interface.
 
> I should put a SOLVED in the subject but neverthless I can't figure out
> why dhclient.conf does not live somewhere on the fs

It is installed with package "isc-dhcp-client" in squeeze, in 
lenny with "dhcp3-client". In fact I have two of those files 
installed in my squeeze system, one under "/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf" 
and other in "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf".

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón