--- Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

It does. If you boot with the "manual" option you can use bootp, which is a subset of DHCP.

I see what you're saying, but it doesn't work in practice on my Linksys EtherFast router nor on the DHCP server that Coyote uses. I haven't tried any other DHCP servers.

Ever looked at alice?

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On December 4, 2001 05:07 am, Jon Pennington wrote:

--- Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

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It does. If you boot with the "manual" option you can use bootp, which is a subset of DHCP.

I see what you're saying, but it doesn't work in practice on my Linksys EtherFast router nor on the DHCP server that Coyote uses. I haven't tried any other DHCP servers.

Most DHCP servers won't hand out dynamic BOOTP by default, which is a shame. For all of the DHCP servers I use (work/home) I've enabled it specifically to make it easier to install SuSE. It's an argument to the range option for ISC DHCP. Here's an example for the /etc/dhcpd.conf file. subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.254; ...rest of section... } Hope that helps. -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com