[ale] dhclient

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:20:49PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> It seems like I must assign some arbitrary IP address to eth0 before I can
> use dhclient.  Does that sound normal?

	No.  Not at all.  But I prefer dhcpcd and haven't been using
dhcpclient.  I'm also not aware of pump requiring this either.

	Seems like I do recall some old problem with a change in the
way certain kernels handled broadcasts and assigning a NULL address
to an interface.  What kernel version are you running and what version
of dhcpclient (I'm assuming that's the one that comes with the ISC
dhcp package).

> Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Fowler [mailto:ChrisF at computone.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:45 PM
> To: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: [ale] dhclient


> I'm using dhclient on boot up on a small device to obtain network settings.
> Dhclient works on my development system but states that no broadcast devices
> are available.  What do I need to do to provide a broadcast device?
> Thanks, 
> Chris 

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