[NTLUG:Discuss] if you can stand any more on dhcpcd

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 04:49, Tom McDonald wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:40:13 -0500
> Fred James <fredjame at concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> > Please understand that all other machines on my LAN are doing fine and 
> > reaching any network they need to (ATT and VPN)
> > It is only my laptop that cannot - so the network is OK, just the laptop 
> > not getting a good IP
> > 
> > When I have the problem, the laptop cannot get to anything - LAN or WAN 
> > - cannot get to my other local computers, or printers, cannot get to 
> > ATT, cannot get to VPN.
> > 
> > Repeating an earlier message, what I did to fix it this evening was the 
> > following two commands, as root, in a terminal window on the laptop:
> >    dhcpcd -k eth0
> >    dhcpcd -n -H eth0
> > and then all was right and running smooth again.
> > 
> 
> Shouldn't you be running dhclient instead of dhcpd?

dhcpcd is the DHCP Client Daemon.
    ^

man page info

      "dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP  client  specified
       in  RFC2131  (when -r option is not specified) and RFC1541
       (when -r option is specified).

       It gets the host information (IP address, netmask,  broad-
       cast  address, etc.) from a DHCP server and configures the
       network interface of the machine on which it  is  running.
       It also tries to renew the lease time according to RFC2131
       or RFC1541 (obsolete)."



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