Re: [PLUG] dhcp and comcast

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:09:44AM -0500, Anthony Locascio wrote:
> SOOO do I need a third party utilty installed to run this?  Some people 
> seem to be favoring adding in something (the something being of course 
> different across the different distrobutions) and I am not sure what 
> that is.  

What valid reasons have been given for extra software?

All you need to be a DHCP client host on any reasonable network is
DHCP client software, for which Debian uses dhclient and RedHat uses
pump. (I abhor the latter, but that's a personal preference.)

Whether or not Comcast's is a reasonable network is perhaps up for
debate, but if Windows and Mac OS (X?) DHCP client software works,
so should yours.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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