Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist
Hello, I had the problem of informing the DHCP-server (which is a Fritz Box 7170) about my computer's name. In section 5.5.4 of http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_network_connection_method_legacy it is suggested to edit /etc/network/interfaces introducing a line with the hostname allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname "mymachine" This did not work for me having the following packages installed isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3 isc-dhcp-common 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3 (I did not replace isc-dhcp-client with dhcp3-client as suggested in section "5.4.1. The DHCP connection with the Ethernet" because I assumed that the isc-dhcp-client is the newer package) To solve the problem, I had to edit /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf, outcommenting the entries send host-name send dhcp-client-identifier and introducing the respective name and MAC-addresse. Yours sincerely Markus -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
