debian man page for dhcpcd3

dhcpcd(8)							 Debian GNU/Linux							 dhcpcd(8)

NAME
       dhcpcd - a wrapper for the DHCP client daemon.

SYNOPSIS
       dhcpcd <option> <interface>

DESCRIPTION
       In  Debian, the DHCP client daemon binary is called dhcpcd-bin and it is invoked via a wrapper called dhcpcd. Dhcpcd is normally invoked by
       ifup(8) but ifup only allows the setting of a limited number of dhcpcd command line flags.  The	dhcpcd	wrapper  reads	extra  flags  from
       /etc/default/dhcpcd  and  then invokes dhcpcd-bin(8) It also adds the hostname as an argument to the command line, unless it is already set
       by ifup or /etc/default/dhcpcd or SET_HOSTNAME is configured. In that case there is no point in sending the  old  hostname  with  the  DHCP
       request when it will be overridden by a new name supplied by the DHCP server.

       Note that the interface argument must be supplied, there is no default to eth0 like the unadorned dhcpcd binary.

SEE ALSO
       ifup(8) dhcpcd-bin(8)

AUTHORS
       Simon Kelley <srk@thekelleys.org.uk>

dhcpcd								    13 May 2004 							 dhcpcd(8)