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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news1.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!gatekeeper.wj.com!bali.seg.wj.com!not-for-mail From: alan@bali.seg.wj.com (Alan Strassberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: what's the dhcp solution? Date: 15 Oct 1996 13:48:40 -0700 Organization: Watkins-Johnson Lines: 25 Message-ID: <540tb8$98h@bali.seg.wj.com> References: <32632eaf.15585624@news.together.net> Reply-To: alan@wj.com NNTP-Posting-Host: bali.seg.wj.com In article <32632eaf.15585624@news.together.net>, Scott I. Remick <chroma@together.net> wrote: >Could someone fill me in on the scoop with dhcp servers for FreeBSD >2.1.5? > >I see isc-dhcp and wide-dhcp in the ports, but am not sure on the >difference and therefore which one to use: > >I've got a network of about 40 systems (a mixture of Win3.1 and >Win95), and dhcp would make my life easier. I've done it with WinNT >servers so I know how to set things up on the client. I've had much better luck with the ISC implementation. It supports bootp/dhcp with static/dynamic and also secondary nets. But grab the latest (Beta 5 Patchlevel 13): http://www.vix.com/pub/isc/dhcp/dhcp-beta.html Compiles out of the box. And FYI, the DHCP FAQ is found: http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/comfaqs/dhcp.faq.html alan -- alan@wj.com