[olug] dhclient and Cox dhcp

[ktb]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:15:48AM -0500, kaygee wrote:
> Does anyone no what kind of fatted calf I have to kill to get OpenBSD's
> dhclient to grab an ip from Cox's dhcp servers?
> 
> I tried the -r flag thinking maybe they were using obsolete RFC1531 (or
> thereabouts) but the DHCP_DISCOVER requests just keep timing out.
> 
> I know I did this with dhcpcd before on RedHat but I decided to replace my
> firewall with OBSD and it's kind of essential that it be able to get an
> ip since it also does NAT for the rest of the network.
> 

It has been a while since I had Cox but IIRC I just tweaked
/etc/dhclient.conf

I had to add the 'machine name' or whatever Cox called it to the config
file initially.  That may have been just for the switchover.

If you can't get it to work I would just install OpenBSD via network
with a floppy.  Through the installation process the networking will be
configured.
hth,
kent

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