Re: Configuring DHCP

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 01:07 +0300, Hristo Hristov wrote:
> Hi,
> I traced thar NM v0.7 calls dhclient with these parameters for me:
> -d -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action
> -pf /var/run/dhclient-wlan0.pid -lf /var/run/dhclient-wlan0.lease 
> -cf /etc/dhclient-wlan0.conf wlan0
> So you can specify the options for dhclient in /etc/dhclient-wlan0.conf
> , changing wlan0 with the interface you have, instead of 
> /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

BTW, if debian puts interface-specific dhclient config files somewhere
else normally, I'm happy to have NM pass that location on the dhclient
command line for debian-based distros
instead.  /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-wlan0.conf perhaps?

dan

> BR,
> Hristo
> 
> On Fri, 2 May 2008 00:57:24 +0300
> "Nick Palamarchuk" <lupinedreamer gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > DHCP server on my network sends routes in rfc3442 format. So I have to
> > configure NetworkManager to understand this format.
> > 
> > My /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf looks like this:
> > 
> > option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer
> > 8;
> > 
> > request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers,
> >         domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name,
> >         netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope,
> >         rfc3442-classless-static-routes;
> > 
> > I also have script for setting this routes in
> > /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d
> > 
> > But NetworkManager dont use this options. I found only way for making it
> > work: to re-run dhclient by hand (or by script in /etc/network/if-up.d/ )
> > 
> > Tell me plz if there is better way.
> 
> 
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