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). -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux@gminformatique.com cassandre@gminformatique.com Voyez mon site web sur: http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com Ma généalogie et la petite histoire de Herve et sa région ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Qui fut le plus à plaindre: Cassandre que personne n'écouta ou ceux qui n'écoutaient pas Cassandre ====== Who was more to be pitied Cassandra whom nobody listened to or those who were not listening to Cassandra -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux@gminformatique.com cassandre@gminformatique.com Voyez mon site web sur: http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com Ma généalogie et la petite histoire de Herve et sa région