Actually, I use pump, but don't have dhclient on my system. According to the pump man page, it is a program that get's the ip address on it's own, including logging facilities. I didn't see a dhclient package in the stable debian archives. Where did you get it? Since dhcpcd works on your mandrake box, why not try it on debian? There is a package for it. $ apt-cache search dhcp |grep client pump - Simple DHCP/BOOTP client for 2.2.x kernels dhcpcd - DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking dhcp-client - DHCP Client As far as the messages you see: >I _do_ notice an unusual message when dhclient runs: after is says "Listening on LPF/eth0/blah(hex hw addr?) and "Sending on LPF/eth0/blah(same hex) it says "Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net before it goes on to DHCPDISCOVER into oblivion... I have a debian dhcp server on my network. When dhcpd-2.2.x loads it displays these messages. Listening on eth0... [for dhcp requests]. Sound rather odd that a dhcp client would output messages that a dhcp server is supposed to output. For my debian client configuration: There is no pump config that I needed to do. Network interfaces are configured via /etc/network/interfaces Here's the info for my dhcp setup: ------- # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) auto lo eth0 # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installationiface eth0 inet dhcp ----- This is the whole file. Upon bootup, or upon an ifup eth0 call, pump is called, an ip address is assigned, routing tables are setup. All automagically. Pump is a daemon that resides in memory once started. Cory On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:49:38PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > > What if you try pump to get an ip? > > > > I assume you have a dhcp server on your subnet? > > > > Cory > > pump just sets up the ifconfig for eth0, and the > routing tables, then runs dhclient which fails to > get a lease... I use dhcpcd on my mandrake box > (upon which I typeth) and things are just fine. > The dhcp server is on a firewall/router device. > > ben
