On Thursday February 20 2003 07:04 am, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> For anyone having problems with DHCP and the Betas or RC1
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The problem Is Not caused by the nic
>
> During network configuration if you select DHCP, regardless of the
> type of connection dhcp-client and dhcp-server are installed and
> Only they are installed.
>
> If you connect through a firewall, router or to a LAN you Need to
> install dhcpcd.
> You can remove the dhcp-client and server because you do not need
> them on that machine but if you for some reason run drakconnect it
> will want to install them again..
>
>
> Charles
OTOH, I'm connecting thru a NIC and router (ATU-R), often called a
adsl modem.
tom$ frpm dhcp
dhcp-client-3.0-2pl2.3mdk
dhcp-common-3.0-2pl2.3mdk
No problems, works great.
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