dhcpcd

Hi

How am I able to get dhcpcd to start automatically every time I boot? As
it is just now I have to type 'dhcpcd' as root to get access to the net
through my adsl router.

Is it something to do with '/etc/dhcp*' files?

Thanks

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Matt

Fear of a flat planet

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:12:52 +0000, Matthew Paterson wrote:
> Hi
>
> How am I able to get dhcpcd to start automatically every time I boot? As
> it is just now I have to type 'dhcpcd' as root to get access to the net
> through my adsl router.
>
> Is it something to do with '/etc/dhcp*' files?

For me on Mandrake distro's I set BOOTPROTO=dhcp in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:20:48 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> For me on Mandrake distro's I set BOOTPROTO=dhcp in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

As youve mentioned due to different systems, I dont have this.

Im running :
Slackware Linux 8.1
linux-2.4.20 kernel.
DHCP Client Daemon v.1.3.22-pl1
Gnome 1.4
connection through eth0 to Force9 in the UK

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Thanks for the info.

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Matt

Fear of a flat planet

Matthew Paterson wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:20:48 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:
>
>
>>For me on Mandrake distro's I set BOOTPROTO=dhcp in
>>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
>
> As youve mentioned due to different systems, I dont have this.
>
> Im running :
> Slackware Linux 8.1
> linux-2.4.20 kernel.
> DHCP Client Daemon v.1.3.22-pl1
> Gnome 1.4
> connection through eth0 to Force9 in the UK

I can't remember if Slackware 8.1 had this, or if PV introduced it in
Slackware 9.0, but look at /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 for this sort of code (close
to the top)

# You shouldn't need to edit anything below here.

# Set up the loopback interface:
/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo

# Set up the eth0 interface:
if [ "$USE_DHCP" = "yes" ]; then # use DHCP to set everything up:
echo "Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server..."
# Add the -h option to the DHCP hostname:
if [ ! "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" = "" ]; then
DHCP_HOSTNAME="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME"
fi
/sbin/dhcpcd -t 10 ${DHCP_HOSTNAME} -d eth0

et cetera

If the above "if" statements are in your rc.inet1, then you just have to set
the line
USE_DHCP=yes
at the top of rc.inet1, and you'll get dhcpcd starting on eth0

If Slackware 8.1 /didn't/ come with script, go to your favourite Slackware
download site, and grab the tcpip-0.17-i386-16.tgz package. pkunzip it
(/don't/ upgradepkg or installpkg it), and extract out the rc.inet1 script.
From there, you should be able to cut'n'paste the dhcpcd startup into
/your/ rc.inet1 script





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Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)

Matthew Paterson <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>Im running :
>Slackware Linux 8.1
>linux-2.4.20 kernel.
>DHCP Client Daemon v.1.3.22-pl1
>Gnome 1.4
>connection through eth0 to Force9 in the UK

You can edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 manually, or you can just run "netconfig"
to reconfigure your network and select DHCP on the appropriate screen.

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Mark Cudworth

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:19:11 +0000, Mark Cudworth wrote:

> You can edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 manually, or you can just run
> "netconfig" to reconfigure your network and select DHCP on the
> appropriate screen.

Hi, that has worked. Thanks to Lew as well for the info on the correct
file to edit.

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Matt

Fear of a flat planet