Re: Libretto
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Other one is DHCP. I use static IP most times. Will have to use DHCP
> shortly even though I don't want to.
>
> Which packages do I download to use DHCP on my laptop ? Done
> 'apt-cache search dhcp' and a large pile of packages fell across the
> screen. Last time I did this the DHCP daemon started on boot up and
> locked up the whole system. End result, re-install from scratch. I'd
> like to make sure that DHCP is controlled by setenv when the machine
> boots.
Why reinstall? If you dont have a dhcp server that gives your client an ip
address, your client will wait for a couple of minutes before continuing.
Or it will wait forever. I don't remember which :). But every time I for
some reason aren't physically connected to a network and wish to reboot, I
simply press ctrl-c when my laptop waits to get an ip.
And then if I get connected again, and don't wish to restart my laptop, I
run "ifup eth0", or if it wont work: "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0".
I did a "ps aux" to find any process that could be my dhcp client and
found this one:
root 3218 0.0 0.0 2168 204 ? S Jun29 0:00
/sbin/dhclient-2.2.x -q eth0
Mine seems to be named "dhclient". That's the one that installed itself
when I installed GNU/Debian. Hmm..
tommy@todulaptop:~$ dpkg -l|grep dhcp
ii dhcp-client 2.0pl5-11 DHCP Client
tommy@todulaptop:~$
I suppose you could get the same dhcp-client as the one that gets selected
by default during a Woody installation if you type this command:
apt-get install dhcp-client
Then your computer should start asking you a few relevant questions. And
then you have to add this to your /etc/network/interfaces file if apt-get
doesn't do that automatically for you:
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
# installation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
However I've never tried to use setenv. It works good enough doing stuff
manually. But I know - in the long run it will be easier if I do stuff the
"setenv-way" :).
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