How to get an IP address automatically from my hardware Gateway Router

[John Blow]

With a fresh Slackware 8 installation, a NIC that connects to a
Gateway router,which in turn connects to a ADSL line via a DSL modem:
How do I configure my network interface to automatically get an IP
address from the router at boot time, instead of assigning one myself?
I could not find anything related to this in the 3800 pages of docu I
have; everything seems to point to pre-assigning IP addresses.
Can s.o. point me in the right direction please? I am new to LINUX.
Thanks.
PeterK

[Hal Burgiss]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 20:19:28 -0800, John Blow <p.k...@verizon.net>
wrote:

What you probably need is to start a dhcp client on the NIC that goes to
the router. I don't know slack enough to know the preferred way of doing
this. If your NIC is eth0, try typing 'dhcpcd' as root, and maybe you'll
get lucky :/

[hal@cadillac hal]$ man -k dhcp
dhcpcd (8) - DHCP client daemon
pump (8) - configure network interface via BOOTP or
DHCP protocol

(That's Redhat)

Microsoft-speak for DHCP is 'automatically obtain IP address', or
somesuch.

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Hal Burgiss

[James Knott]

John Blow wrote:

What are you using for the gateway? If Linux, you'll have to set up a
DHCP server. If a commercial firewall box, you'll have to read it's
instructions for setting up DHCP.

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[AL Mills]

and here is a link to the DHCP mini-howto that'll get you through the
process.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/DHCP

AL Mills

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