[NMLUG] dhcpd.conf file for Comcast cable internet in SF

[paul.tietjens at moriarty.k12.nm.us (Paul Tietjens)]

Wesley J Landaker wrote:

>On Friday 04 June 2004 6:27 pm, Andrei Starobin wrote:
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>>thanks, Jason. installed dhclient and dhcp(d) and everything works.
>>dhclient appears to be a front-end interface to the dhcpd daemon.
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>Actually, dhclient and dhcpd have nothing to do with each other. =)
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>dhclient is a DHCP client, for getting an address on your machine; other 
>clients typical included in distributions are dhcpcd and pump; they all 
>do basically the same thing.
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>dhcpd is a DHCP server, this is only useful serving out addresses to 
>other machines on your network, i.e. if you are using a linux box as a 
>router.
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He may have meant dhcpcd which is a dhcp client that runs as a Daemon 
and can be told to background while waiting for a lease, etc.