On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:22:55PM +0000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I have a cable modem and use the NTL service in the UK. Recently, NTL changed > the DNS servers for cable modem users, but I had manually set up > /etc/resolv.conf to contain the original addresses. NTL maintain that using a > DHCP client should ensure that the ISP can change DNS addresses and the > customer's machine is updated automatically. > > Does this work with Linux? If so, how do I set it up?
yes, do "apt-get install dhcpcd" or "apt-get install pump" and edit /etc/network/interfaces to hove something like: iface eth0 inet dhcp it's dhcp both for dhcpcd and for pump (IIRQ), and no there is no need to add lines for address, netmask etc -- groetjes, carel