Subject: Being a DHCP client
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/04/2000 17:51:39
Two issues in making my box a DHCP client:
- The DHCP howto at <http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/dhcp.html>
has the example for /etc/dhclient.conf that looks very different than the
man page for dhclient.conf. Both seem to work. Should the howto be updated?
- Using either style, and requesting host-name in the reply, my system's
hostname variable doesn't automatically get filled in. This is a bit of a
pain, because 'sup' requires it (I'm not sure what else does). Is there an
easy fix for /etc/dhclient-script to add this? Should that change be made
standard?
--Paul Hoffman