On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 19:36 +0100, The Holy ettlz wrote: > Hi, > > > > 2. I can't seem to get the DHCP send-hostname feature to work. > > > > It only works for system connections at the moment, but if you have > > DHCP_HOSTNAME in your ifcfg file, it should pick that up and send it. > > Verify this by dumping /var/run/nm-dhclient-eth0.conf and seeing what > > options are in it. > > I've just been playing with this one at the moment in F8. I've got > > DHCP_HOSTNAME=rhapsody > > in both /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 > and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > nm-applet on F8 now shows just "Auto eth0", but I'll leave that for the > time-being... anyway, with NetworkManager nm-dhclient-eth0.conf contains > > send host-name "rhapsody"; > > BUT I don't think the client is actually sending this --- I captured the > packets with Wireshark and it's not in any of the DHCP request's > options. > > When I ran /sbin/dhclient eth0 -cf /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf (which > contains the same lines as nm-dhclient-eth0.conf above), the hostname > request is part of the request packet, and the name resolves OK.
What's the output of: ps aux | grep dhclient while you're connected using NetworkManager? Are there any _more_ lines in /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf than what was in nm-dhclient-eth0.conf? Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list