Thanks to all who wrote me about my problems with the dhcp clients (both "official" and Red Hat's own version). It turned out that I needed to download updates of both dhcp and Red Hat's "pump" to obtain the functionality I needed. On the advice of friends who are savvy on this stuff, I'm using the Internet Software Consortium's package, <ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-3.0b1pl12.tar.gz> for the DHCP server and Red Hat's package, pump-0.7.2.tar.gz. The latter seems to work with the RH6.0+updates distribution I'm running. This is working well (with the -h change in the "pump" call) with the DHCP server that Nevada Bell Internet is using. Here is a list of the manual pages (from apropos) that I hauled up from the update: dhclient-script (8) - DHCP client network configuration script dhclient.conf (5) - DHCP client configuration file dhcp-conditionals (5) - ISC DHCP conditional evaluation dhcp-options (5) - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol options dhcpd (8) - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server dhcpd.conf (5) - dhcpd configuration file dhcpd.leases (5) - DHCP client lease database The good news: I move to another ISP, and get a static address. Bye-bye, dhcpcd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
