Re: dhcp setup on debian woody

[Paulo Lopes]

Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:

On 26-11-2002, at 10h 27'59", Paulo Lopes wrote to debian-laptop about "dhcp setup on debian woody"

hi,

i want to connect my laptop to a dhcp network and i've been using it with static IP. I've been reading the /etc/network/interfaces file and don't know exactly what to do for dhcp. Nevertheless i've been trying to make it work and in the howto's i've read it says that i need to install "dhcpcd", i do apt-get install dhcpcd and i get a reply that that package does not exist (at least on my distro woody/stable).

Can someone tell me how to configure it?

Try "apt-get install pump" or "apt-get install dhcp-client", "apt-get install dhcpcd" should work as well. How did you installed
you debian? From CD's? From the net? In the worse of cases go to
www.debian.org -> Debian Packages and search for it, then after
you downloaded you can install it with dpkg:

dpkg -i dhcpcd*.deb

dhcpcd does not show up on my cd installation woody 3.0r0 updated with security.debian.org
patches. (i don't use testing/unstable packages because last time i've done it, my the upgrade
to lilo made my system not to boot again. :-)

I've installed the pump package, thanks.

i've a ip static network on eth1 (pcmcia and working) and need a dhcp on eth0 (internat ethernet adapter) all the modules work and were built for the 2.4.18 kernel. All i need it dhcpcd or something else that can do the same, and a sample /etc/network/interfaces, of course if there's anything else you can let me know :-)

In /etc/network/interfaces for a static setup you need:
iface eth0 inet static
address xx.xx.xx.xx
netmask yy.yy.yy.yy
gateway zz.zz.zz.zz
auto eth0

For a dynamic setup with dhcp you need:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0


Good luck,
Ionel

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