Does Linux support DHCP

Rodney Thayer rodney at sabletech.com
Mon Jan 27 12:12:33 EST 1997


At 10:26 AM 1/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone out there used DHCP to obtain IP addresses. DHCP is a Microsft 
>rpotocol to dynamically assign IP addresses to a client. Has anyone 
>implemented it in Lunux yet.

No no no no Microsoft didn't invent it.

There's a DHCP server written by someone in Japan that runs on Linux.  I
don't think there are any clients but since the code is Net3 it shouldn't
be hard.

Highway1 won't give you an ip number, eh?


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