Re: dhclient in 6.0

Marcin Jessa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization YazzY.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:39:19 +0100
Frank Altpeter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Marcin Jessa wrote on 2006-02-03 at 14:33:55 CET:
> > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:02:41 +0100
> > Frank Altpeter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > kalin mintchev wrote on 2006-02-03 at 13:55:01 CET:
> > > > > 2006/2/3, make stuff up <[email protected]>:
> > > > >
> > > > >>   thank you...  does that mean back to 5.4 for now?
> > > > >
> > > > > Try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client/
> > > > 
> > > >   without a connection?
> > > 
> > > try to manually ifconfig your fxp0 - this should work.
> > 
> > Son't be silly. What if you dont know what IP you will get from the
> > lease? That's what working implementation of DHCP is for...
> 
> Take one IP that is free (e.g. doesn't ping) ? The plain presence of a
> dhcp server doesn't mean that you're unable to use static
> configuration.

What if you take your laptop to an university to hold a lecture and you
are unable to run dhcp? None of the students know of the IPs avaliable
in the range. 
Some systems disallow traffic unless your MAC-address is registered in
their database. Then they open up their firewall for you.
Etc, etc...
Use your imagination.
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