There are 3 DHCP clients available for Linux:
1) pump: I've never used it, but from what I've read on LinuxNewbie.org, It's
best avoided
2) dhcpcd: Pretty much the szstandard DHCP client on most Linux distributions.
Uses /etc/init.d/dhcpcd as it's init script. You need version 0.7.X for
kernels 2.0.x. versions 1.13.X for kernels 2.1.x and 2.2.x. The code base is
kind of old and sloppy.
3) dhclient: I use and highly suggest this. Uses /etc/dhclient.conf for it's
configuration file, and /etc/init.d/dhcp-client for its init script.
I would suggest installin a newer kernel. Actually, just update to Debian 2.1.
Short of that, with Debian 1.3 (which uses a 2.0.x kernel, to the best of my
knowledge), your only choice is to use dhcpcd 0.7.X, as the others only work
with 2.1/2 kernels.
Hope this helps,
Bryan
On 20-Jan-2000 Albert Hurd wrote:
> releases. The fix suggested
> is to make changes to /etc/inet.d/dhcpcd. This file is not present on
> my system (there is the execu
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