> 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 > dhclient was the name of the app that the dhcp-client package used. I've gone through and tried installing all 3 different clients, (one at a time of course) and can't get any of them to come remotely close to working. ifconfig shows that none of them ever recieve any packets while trying to talk with the dhcpd, so maybe its more of a interface problem? tho, everthing seems to get recognized and I don't have any problem setting up ifconfig or the routing tables manually. > 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. > I tried using this file and it actually spit an error back out to me about an option not being followed by an interface, i had to remove the 'auto lo eth0' line to get ifup to run, tho it didn't complete running. :( Wallowing in frustration, Jim, ben's buddy
