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Re: DHCP accross router??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Tue Oct 27 14:55:06 1998
Reply-To: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>, "Godfrey Nix" <g.nix@emnet.co.uk>
Cc: <chuck@moongroup.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:48:09 -0500
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
That being the case, his Windows install already is acting as a DHCP client
and is getting a response back from the router (assuming he is correct in
his accessment, as many times the routers themselves act as DHCP servers...
configured by their remote hosts...)....
Shouldn't all he need to do is set up a DHCP client?
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
To: Godfrey Nix <g.nix@emnet.co.uk>
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Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: DHCP accross router??
>On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Godfrey Nix wrote:
>
>> Umm, I dont think you can.
>
>Wrong! On a Cisco the syntax is ip-helper or some such. What it
>does is it forwards the bootp broadcast to the designated DHCP
>server. It works!
>
>> > I need my Linux machine to get its IP address through DHCP. The DHCP
server
>> > is only reachable through a router. I am having trouble finding out how
to
>> > configure machines to use DHCP and how to debug DHCP in general. I have
>> > found nothing on how to do this. Any pointers are
>> > appreciated.
>> >
>> Godfrey N Nix C.Eng MBCS B.ScTech(Hons)
>> Network Operations Manager
>> East Midlands Network Ltd (emnet)
>> phone 0115 956 8260
>> visit http://www.emnet.co.uk
>>
>>
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>Cheers!
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