[Gllug] dhcp, dropping ip?

[Bruce Richardson]

On 27/05/02, 09:06:58, Sean Burlington <sean at uncertainty.org.uk> wrote 
regarding Re: [Gllug] dhcp, dropping ip?:


> I had problems with pump a while back - ended up using dhcpcd instead 
which I
> have been much happier with

> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/x74.html

> IIRC what happened with pump was that everything worked at first - but 
when
> the lease expired - so did my connection!

> I could get it back again by restarting the connection - but this is 
annoying
> to say the least

> do you have a cron job prodding pump to do its job every now and again ?

That is not necessary.  Pump has a smaller feature set than the dhcpd 
client but it works perfectly well.  What you need to be sure is that you 
have configured the network interface in the standard way for your 
distribution (/etc/network/interfaces for Debian, use Linuxconf or netcfg 
for Red Hat). If you do that and configure the interface as dhcp, then 
most distributions will look for the dhcpcd client and, failing that, 
pump and use it to configure the interface whenever it is brought up.

-- 

Bruce


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