On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Heath Doane wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >> 2: When setting up the NIC as being automatically assigned an IP,
> >> I couldn't see how to choose DHCP or BOOTP - The only option was to
> >> choose automatic, which seems to default to BOOTP.
> >
> >well, the client does the same thing for both DHCP and BOOTP, so no need to
> >differentiate (at least that's what redhat does, am not an expert on this :)
>
> Well, my IP is set dynamically by DHCP. After selecting "Auto. IP" in the
> install, I was not assigned an IP until I changed to DHCP from BootP in
> Linuxconf.
>
> Dunno if it would be possible to setup 2 options (AutoIP DHCP & AutoIP
> BOOTP) or even change the default to DHCP?
>
>
Which selection did you use for install again? I've been doing installs as
"custom" and it's always dhcp, no choice of which.
maybe a bug :(