On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:32, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > begin Daniel L. Miller quote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:38:41AM -0800: > > Running PUMP from a terminal window appears to configure my network adapter > > correctly via DHCP. How can I make PUMP ( or anything else, for that > > matter) run at system startup? > > You can edit /etc/network/interfaces, and change the `iface eth0' line: > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > This will automatically launch a dhcp client on boot (technically, on > ifup eth0). > > > Is there a better way of performing a DHCP client request than PUMP? > > There are a couple of DHCP clients packaged for Debian; pump is (I > believe) the default, I prefer dhcp3-client, as it gives more > informative messages when something goes wrong. Both work fine in my > experience.
pump is a good dhcp client to have handy if you're heading into Microsoft land, but other than that, it's known to not be so great. It's not fully standards compliant (much like MS's DHCP servers), so the preferred option is dhcp3-client, or dhcp-client. If you're on a MS network though, I'd suggest keeping pump as it will work well with MS's DHCP server. -Alex
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