Re: dhclient in 6.0

On Saturday 04 February 2006 00:36, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> 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.

The manual configuration was suggested as a short-time work around to allow 
you to install the ISC DHCP client and then use that (for a longer term work 
around).

ISTR DHCP servers will try and ping and address before giving it out so if you 
steal one then it probably won't be reassigned.

Obviously this isn't a long term solution, and in some circumstances (like you 
suggest) it won't work, but it IS acknowledged as a bug..


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