On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, eccentric globetrotter wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have RH 6.2. My campus network requires me to use DHCP. So i have
> configured the network accordingly on the machine. Everything works as
> such well on the pc. I have 2 queries.
>
> 1. I want to know what client I have - dhcpcd or dhclient. which one
I am not sure if dhclient comes with RH, may be. dhclient is licensed
undec ISC license. Usually dhclient OR dhcpcd is located in /sbin. So fo
rpm -q -f /sbin/dhcpcd
This will tell U which rpm this come from...
> does RH 6.2 come by default.
>
> 2. How do I change the Lease time that the client requests for at the
> boot process. Apparantly right now it is very less. As a result each
/etc/dhcpd.conf for server configurable items
/etc/dhclient.conf for clint configurable items.
So do man on them...
Thanks
Chetan S
> time I boot the machine I have a diff IP. I want to somehow try to get
> back the same IP. Can anyone advise how to do the same. Apparantly
> when i boot from windows it tries to reserve the IP for 30 days.I want
> to do the same for linux.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Raj :)
>
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