Can't send DHCP options

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Fri Feb 22 09:45:59 UTC 2008


James wrote:
>I delete the dhclient.conf in /etc/dhcp3/ directory, and I find the 
>dhclient still CAN work.
>Why? If I don't provide the dhclient.conf file, how does dhclient 
>know what to do?

Defaults.

You do not have to configure anything at all for a basic DHCP client 
to be able to function - that is the whole point of DHCP. In the 
absence of a config that says otherwise, the client will simply get 
and process a default set of options - eg it will ask for basic 
network parameters (address, mask, gateway, DNS servers) and 
configure the network and resolver accordingly.


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