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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