At 7:20 PM 4/10/97, Colin Wood wrote:
>> I know that is is old hat, but I was just wondering, is there a way to set
>> it up so it will get the ip address from the server? (dynamic ip address)
>> I always feel bad for asking old questions, but it seems my lot in life.
>> If it's in the FAQ's, just scream RTFM and where.  TIA.
>
>If you mean by "it" that you aren't using PPP (which rather easily handles
>dynamic addressing), you probably want to check out dhcp.  You might want
>to ask on current-users since the DHCP code was changed recently.  I
>believe there is a manpage on setting it up, though.
>
rtfm ifconfig

I think there is an auto-revarp option or something like that which will do
a reverse arp on the interface to determine it's IP address.  (Probably
only works on Ethernet.)  DHCP is a different protocol.  BootP is another.
Which you use depends on what your servers provide.

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