DHCP client & ipchains headache Post: 5952

Sponsored Content

Special Forums IP Networking DHCP client & ipchains headache Post 5952 by jurrien on Monday 27th of August 2001 06:06:17 PM

08-27-2001

Registered User

@home &linux

at this moment i also have @home but my server is freebsd. i also had a small headache for one day to get info out of the server. (i live in the netherlands i am not sure if there is a different @home config around the world). by my @home wants to know my computer name before i get an ip (that things is the thing i know). i got the dhcp client from www.isc.org (one of the two most used dhcp clients).
my config is at the moment

in my /etc/dhclient.conf is standing

interface "interfacename" {
send dhcp-client-identifier "computername";
send dhcp-lease-time 86400;
}

where interface name could be in linux eth0 or eth1(the one which the cable modem is on is the good one)
and computername your official computername how they want it by @home.

then simply type dhclient eth0
aand your computer got his ip (worked by me).

jurrien

View Public Profile for jurrien

Find all posts by jurrien

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. IP Networking

Howto configure AIX DHCP Client ?

I use DHCP on my AIX box at home . I want to connect to my Cable ISP as a DHCP Client . the thing I did was this : smit Communications Applications and Services TCP/IP Use DHCP for TCPIP Configuration and Startup "Select the interface you want to use" en0 "Enter a hostname" OK after...

2. IP Networking

PUMP DHCP Client

I'm currently using red hat 6.1 and PUMP DHCP Client, I have a Cable Modem from which I aquire my leases. I've configured the lcient corrctly to the best of my knowledge and if get assigned an IP address on the subnet for my local Ubr, however when I go to use any HTTP based program all my requests...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

scripting headache... loops & variables

Surely there's an easier way to do this, lets see if anyone knows! I am new to scripting so go easy on me! I have the following script and at the moment it doesn't work and I believe the problem is that I am using a while loop within a while loop. When I run the script using sh -x I can see...

4. Solaris

Solaris Install over WAN(where to keep wanboot.conf file for DHCP client)

I am trying to configure my jumpstart server to install Solaris 10 on a T1000 machine(target) over WAN. I do not know the IP address of the client, i wish the client to get the IP address from DHCP. how do i configure my /etc/netboot hierarchy. One option would be to keep the wanboot.conf in...

5. SCO

dhcp client

I have openserver 5.0.7 running on a machine and would like to know how to configure a dhcp client for it and make it run at startup. Thank you.

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

DHCP client question

hi all, In dhcp client , how to specify no of retiral attempts for getting IP ? man dhclient.conf - has rery timeout but i m looking for attempts Also option nwip.autoretries uint8; - i guess this is for dhcpd server I basically want to expire after the first attempt. Any...

7. AIX

How to set dhcp client by using commands

Hi, I have used "smit tcpip" to setup dhcp client but it does not work. Don't know why. Now I want to try using commands to do the job. I have studied commands chdev and mktcpip but did not find howto. Please help. Thank you!

8. Linux

Linux dhcp client boot process with packets traffic

Hi Everybody, I would like to know the entire network packets exchange, sequence between a linux dhcp client workstation & dhcp server as client comes up starting from OS booting stage as network service starts to the time client gets dhcp IP address. This would be in a typical LAN ...

9. IP Networking

DHCP client's IP release query

Hi All, I have two doubts here in DHCP Solaris environment.. could anyone please clarify me? 1. If a new client comes up and it needs an IP to be assigned by a DHCP server, how can it communicate with the DHCP server in the first case without any IP? The SUN doc says something about "BOOTP"...

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dhclient.leases

dhclient.leases(5)						File Formats Manual						dhclient.leases(5)

NAME

       dhclient.leases - DHCP client lease database

DESCRIPTION

       The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client keeps a persistent database of leases that it has acquired that are still valid.   The database
       is a free-form ASCII file containing one valid declaration per lease.   If more than one declaration appears for a given  lease,  the  last
       one in the file is used.   The file is written as a log, so this is not an unusual occurrence.

       The format of the lease declarations is described in dhclient.conf(5).

FILES

       DBDIR/dhclient.leases

SEE ALSO

       dhclient(8), dhcp-options(5), dhclient.conf(5), dhcpd(8), dhcpd.conf(5), RFC2132, RFC2131.

AUTHOR

       dhclient(8)  was written by Ted Lemon under a contract with Vixie Labs.	 Funding for this project was provided by Internet Systems Consor-
       tium.  Information about Internet Systems Consortium can be found at https://www.isc.org.

																dhclient.leases(5)