On 14:07 Sun 23 Oct , Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our > workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For > various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some > reason when I try to bring up the network interface on the Gentoo box, > which has a dhcp client, the dhcp client times out and I can't obviously > get an IP address. > I'm getting my ip's form a W2k3 server, using dhcpcd as a client.
I put the following in /etd/conf.d/net:
iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0="-h $(hostname) -N"
I understand that Gentoo now sends the hostname by default, so the:
"-h $(hostname)"
may not be needed.
Good luck.
Bill Roberts
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