[techtalk] Debian and DHCP

[Nicole Zimmerman]

I guess it is using pump (/sbin/pump) to configure the interface, that is
one of the first ~100 processes so I'd imagine it is started when my net
card is initialised. 

Pump is what dpkg tells me is the replacement for dhcpd, but dhcpd is also
out there (you can get either from apt-get install). I don't know the
difference, but I'd imagine that dhcpd is more widely used. 

-nicole (again)

At 13:02 on Jul 13, Nicole Zimmerman combined all the right letters to say:

> Check out /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> instead of something like
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
> (blah blah blah blah)
> 
> you will need to use:
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp