On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:46:59 -0700 Dave Anselmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jerry McBride wrote: > ---snip--- > > The dhcp hurddle I haven't quite cleared is understanding what I've done. ---snip--- > What you have is the software from the Internet Software Consortium. dhclient is >the client half, what you need. dhcpd is the server half, what your ISP uses. That's my understanding also. Thanks for confirming it. It's really a pain to figure this stuff out as documentation is really sparse. All I really need to do at the moment is get the client half under my belt and get my lan sharing the inet resource over it. > There is another package called dhcpcd which is an alternative client. I found it and decided early on to ignore it. From what I gleened from the few docs and info sources, it's not what I need. Thank you. > I hear that the mailing lists are a little stuffy. > ---snip--- Yeah, I've tasted the archives and... well.. I've got enough to deal with than to add them to my list. :') > Anyway, take a look at the man pages to start. dhclient will tell you >the name of >the config file, and the man page on it is pretty good. I've printed the relavent pages and they do make for interesting reading. > Take a look at what you have already and don't get bogged down in all >the options. >You should be ok at that point. > Well... That's about what I've done. I've got the server reliably online via dhclient. I have to figure out how to get my fixed IP firewall to work correctly with dhcp. Could you give me a "heads up" if I need to set anything in dhclient.conf to allow for my intranet? > Most of the settings like dns and lease times are set on the server. > Yes. > If you're *really* interested, there's a book on DHCP. It and various >on-line >resources are listed here: > > http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ > I'm debating on buying the dhcp book, but at $44.00 a copy it looks like a longgggg debate. For now I'll be tracking down usenet, inet and faqs that relate to dhcp... I haven't found a tutorial or similar yet, but I haven't quit looking. For something that's as common as dhcp, it's amazing there's so little on it in beginners' documentation. After all, I wasn't born knowing it... :') Cheers and thank you very much for your post. -- ****************************************************************************** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=linux 2:55pm up 16:53, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
