Does Linux support DHCP

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Jerry Feldman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JF> Has anyone out there used DHCP to obtain IP addresses. DHCP
 JF> is a Microsft  rpotocol to dynamically assign IP addresses
 JF> to a client. Has anyone  implemented it in Lunux yet.

There were several people working on this.  DHCP client software for Linux does
exist, although I've never used it:

                                    DHCPCD

     * Version: 0.2
     * Entered-date: 16Aug96
     * Description: dhcpcd is an RFC1541 compliant DHCP client daemon. It
       gets an IP address and other information from a corresponding DHCP
       server, configures the network interface automatically, and tries
       to renew the lease time according to RFC1541. I fixed the bug that
       dhcpcd version 0.1 could not get the DHCP options except for
       netmask and lease, T1, T2 time from the Microsoft Windows NT
       server.
     * Keywords: DHCP, client, Linux
     * Author: yoichi at fore.com (Yoichi Hariguchi)
     * Maintained-by: yoichi at fore.com (Yoichi Hariguchi) 22kB
       dhcpcd-0.1.tar.gz
     * Alternate-site:
     * Original-site:
     * Platforms: Linux 1.2.xx, 1.3.xx, 2.0.x
     * Copying-policy: GPL

Some server software also exists:

   ftp://ftp.sghms.ac.uk/pub/pc/Artemis/bootp_dhcp.tar.gz
 
-- Mike