[techtalk] DHCP client with multiple NICs

[Greg Sheard]

If Slackware uses the sysctl(8) system, then it's in the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* (or somewhere similar,
locate(1) the thing if you can't find it) and the line is "BOOTPROTO=dhcp".

Word of advice - it's always worth learning the config files, because the
Linuxconf family is fairly unreliable.

HTH, HAND
Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Subba Rao" <subba9 at home.com>
To: "Linux Ladies" <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:38 PM
Subject: [techtalk] DHCP client with multiple NICs


> I have installed Slackware 8 on a system with 2 NICs. In "netconfig" I
have
> selected the "dhcp" option. When the system comes up, it only finds the
eth0.
> The system does not get an IP address for eth1. The interface does not get
listed
> for the "ifconfig" command. How is a dhcp client with multiple NICs
configured?
>
> Are there any docs that explain the dhcp setup? I have read the dhcpd.conf
but it looks like
> it is for the DHCP server setup. Where in the init scripts are dhcp
addresses assigned to the
> interfaces?
>
> Thank you for any info.
>
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