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From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas)
Subject: Re: WIDE DHCP 1.3 Beta not work on FreeBSD 2.1
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 16:45:16 GMT
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In article <4m73hi$d4a@bluesprings.in-brb.de>, nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke) wrote:

>
>PS: You must DISABLE DNS in W95-networksetup, if you want to use DHCP !!!
>    strange, but true.
>

I don't think this is so. I have only played with dhcp (using a patched CMU 
bootp server) on a single Win95 machine, but I didn't have to turn off DNS. 
This was some time ago (I'll try it again to verify).


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