On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 09:02:13PM -0500, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> I have a cable modem that I use for my Internet connection. My
> service is with Media One here in Massachusetts. My connection is
> working just fine. At boot-up, I have my system configured to use
> DHCP to get my IP Address.
>
> I'm currently working on my firewall, and one of the things I need
> to allow through is my DHCP server. After the machine boots up, and
> establishes an Internet connection, is there a file on my system
> that tells me what DHCP server I'm talking to? I know resolv.conf
> shows the addresses of the nameservers, and my ipchains script
> nicely parses this information out and allows access to it, but I
> need to determine the DHCP server, and any other ports I may need to
> leave open for it.
If you are using pump, 'pump -s' gives you all this.
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