I was the author of the original DHCP client mini-HOWTO. I wrote it last fall, but withdrew it this winter, because it had become obsolete.
The HOWTO described a technique for using Win95 DHCP information to give Linux its necessary IP identity and server information. It was a stopgap, and did not handle lease renewal. I received several complaints about this. The HOWTO was supposed to be called "Win95+DHCP" or something like that, but the name became overly generalized. At the time I wrote it, dhcpcd (the most commonly used Linux DHCP client) was in earlier versions, and did not work with my ISP's DHCP server. So I described the stopgap method. Shortly afterward, dhcpcd was improved, and it's what I use now. I am also participating in debugging the ISC DHCP client. Very briefly, the easy way to use dhcpcd is to install it and invoke it in your boot scripts. I think that's all the current Debian package does. You also need to link /etc/resolv.conf to /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf. I do agree there's probably a need for a DHCP client mini-HOWTO. Sorry for the short lifetime of mine, but it really did become unnecessary shortly after I wrote it. Regards, Dan Halbert -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
