I am currently doing that with SuSE 8.0. I easily set it up under YaST2. You can also set up a timeout value. On the same laptop I previously used YaST1. Under YaST1 on 7.3, you can set up alternate profiles, which is convenient. I have a situation where I have 3 places with dynamic IP addresses (home, work, and where I teach weekly), ond one place where we have our monthly meetings, where we have a fixed IP address. With YaST1, I was able to set them both up and simply deactivate one and activate the other. With 8.0, under YaST2, I must enter the static IP each time. But, in the case of dhcp, whether YaST1 on 7.3 or YaST2 DHCP worked fine. Under YaST1: System Admin Network Configuration Network Base Configuration set up [0] for one and [1] for the other. One thing I found under 8.0, is that sometimes on boot DHCP would not always obtain an IP address. Most of the time simply popping the card caused it to work. I did play around with the time values a bit. I think the default is 999999 (infinite). On 7 Oct 2002 at 23:39, Alain Barthélemy wrote:
Hello,
To see if anybody can help me. I always had fixed IP-addresses on my laptop that I change easily (PCMCIA card) with instruction #> cardctl scheme scheme_name (after configuring /etc/pcmcia/network.opts).
Now I have to work in a service where there is no fixed IP-address, only dynamic IP-addresses. Three years ago I had no problems with rcdhclient in the same service with just one little problem: I had to set up a trial time of at least 20s to request a dynamic IP-address in /etc/rc.config (SuSE 7.1 I think) because the DHCP servor was a little too slow to give a dynamic IP-address.
Right now I am working with SuSE 7.3 and dhclient seems to work but apparently too fast and impossible to get a dynamic IP-address (it is frustrating because that damned Windoze machine has no problem to connect to the network).
There is no more line in /etc/rc.config with SuSE-7.3 to configure a longer trial time to ask for a dynamic IP-address (at least send many requests within 20 seconds).
Does anybody know how I can configure dhclient to make several requests to the dhcp servor? Or can there be another problem but dhclient seems to be a straightforward soft and it worked three years ago (with a request time of at least 20 seconds though).
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