[olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Also, dhclient seems to be the weakest popular DHCP client for Linux.
> It doesn't handle various aspects of DHCP properly.

Oh?  In what way?

> For example, it won't provide the DHCP server with the hostname of
> your client machine, no matter what the man page says.

Of course it does.  My cable modem wouldn't work if it didn't (and I
hadn't manually set the IP number :)!  Like every other DHCP client I've
looked at on Linux/*BSD, it doesn't do it by default.  You just need to
set the host name it'll send in the config file.

Here's a snippet from my dhclient.conf:

interface "eth1" {
        send host-name "cx340599-a";
        script "/etc/dhclient.script";
}



Phil


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