[ale] dhclient

[Joseph A. Knapka]

> Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> It seems like I must assign some arbitrary IP address to eth0 before I
> can use dhclient.  Does that sound normal?
> 
> 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?

A broadcast device is an interface to a broadcast network
segment such as Ethernet, as opposed to a point-to-point
network segment like a PPP or SLIP link. The DHCP
client relies on link-layer broadcasts to communicate with
the DHCP server, so it can't be used on a point-to-point
segment. There are ways of getting a dynamic IP address
via a point-to-point connection, but I think they are
usually protocol-specific, though I may very well be wrong.
I know that the PPP protocol has something like this.

-- Joe Knapka
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