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The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client, dhclient, provides a means for
configuring one or more network interfaces using the Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol, BOOTP protocol, or if these protocols fail, by statically assigning an
address. For more info, see http://www.isc.org/.
| ISC dhclient 2.0pl5 |
| File |
Protocol |
Speed |
Site |
| dhclient.lrp |
http |
Fast |
LEAF Sourceforge site |
| dhclient.lrp |
http |
Slow |
Local download |
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Example network.conf file |
| File |
Protocol |
Speed |
Site |
| network.conf |
http |
Fast |
LEAF Sourceforge site |
| network.conf |
http |
Slow |
Local download |
- Configuration of the dhclient package is done in network.conf
- Using the network.conf above as an example, merge in the chages required
for dhcp support
- As an alternative, you can use the provided network.conf and modify it as
required for your use. If you are configuring your external interface
(eth 0) with dhclient, you probably don't have to make any chaneges to the
provided network.conf, unless you want to change the internal network
addressing (defaults to net 192.168.1.0/24, router IP 192.168.1.254)
- Make sure you remove the interface to be configured by dhclient from the
IF_AUTO list, or the Materhorn and dhclient scripts can interfere with each
other.
- Backup etc to save changes to network.conf
- Reboot
- If you are using this dhclient package with an exiting Materhorn disk
image, be very careful when merging the changes required for
network.conf. In addition to the obvious statements between the 'Added
for DHCP support' and 'end of changed made by Charles Steinkuehler for DHCP
support', you also need to remove the interface you want dhclient to config
from the IF_AUTO list. This avoids interaction problems when both the
Materhorn startup scripts and the dhclient scripts are trying to configure
the interface. I highly suggest you start with the network.conf file
above and change it if necessary to match your setup
- June 27, 2000 - Updated to version 2.0.1 to fix a security bug.
DNSCache (if present) is also restarted if the assigned IP address changes
(previous versions only reloaded the firewall rules).
- Sept 10, 2000 - Version 2.0pl5: I made changes to the
dhclient-script file because some folks were having problems with the
interface being downed and not being brought back up. This was an
oversight initially, as the ifconfig does an implicit 'up' command when
assigning the address. In addition, the dhclinet.exclude.list file was
added to prevent leases from being backed up as part of root.lrp.
10/05/00 13:17 44,773 dhclient.lrp
-rwx--x--x root/root 309 Oct 05 07:00 2000 etc/dhclient-enter-hooks
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1453 Oct 05 07:39 2000 etc/dhclient-exit-hooks
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 9704 Oct 05 08:16 2000 etc/dhclient-script
-rw------- root/root 1388 Jan 27 13:37 2000 etc/dhclient.conf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1294 Feb 15 10:11 2000 etc/init.d/dhclient
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 84900 Oct 05 05:28 2000 usr/sbin/dhclient
-rw-r--r-- root/root 288 Jan 27 13:12 2000 var/lib/lrpkg/dhclient.conf
-rw------- root/root 25 Oct 05 05:22 2000 var/lib/lrpkg/dhclient.exclude.list
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2234 Jun 27 15:22 2000 var/lib/lrpkg/dhclient.help
-rw-r--r-- root/root 77 Feb 15 10:19 2000 var/lib/lrpkg/dhclient.list
-rw-r--r-- root/root 7 Oct 05 05:23 2000 var/lib/lrpkg/dhclient.version
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