[WBEL-users] Dhcpcd vs. Dhclient.....FIGHT!

[Graham Purcocks]

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Sorry missed your subtle extra 'c'. It my age you know. :)




Aaron Smith wrote:
> Dhcpd is the server, dhcpCd and dhclient are the clients.  :)  Maybe
> dhclient is the same thing as dhcpcd but they changed the name to end
> the confusion.  :)
> 
> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:22, Graham Purcocks wrote:
> 
>>Aren't these the client and server. i.e they are not the same
>>
>>dhcpd is the server, dhclient the client, so dhclient talks to dhcpd. I 
>>don't think, but I'm no expert, that one dhcpd talks to another.
>>
>>dhclient will talk to your cable modems, dhcp server to set up your 
>>network interfaces.
>>
>>Graham
>>
>>Aaron Smith wrote:
>>
>>>	So last night I upgraded my Redhat 7.3 server at home to Whitebox 3.0. 
>>>I've had good success with such upgrades on servers here at work. 
>>>However, I'm having a devil of a time getting this sucker to get a DHCP
>>>address from my cable modem.  I figure it has to be something simple
>>>that I'm overlooking.  I believe RH 7.3 used dhcpcd whereas WB uses
>>>dhclient.  Does anyone know of any functional differences between these
>>>two clients?  
>>>I've got the same network card.
>>>I've reset the cable modem.
>>>I've removed all iptables firewalls (temp, just to check)
>>>I've connected the cable modem to a Windows XP box and it gets an IP
>>>just fine.
>>>  Has anyone else run into something like this or can think of something
>>>I might be overlooking?  I'm about ready to compile a copy of dhcpcd on
>>>this and see if THAT works.
>>>
>>>

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