On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:01 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > dhcp6c is the IPv6 dhcp client right? Yes. > Okay, that being the case, what app does Fedora use get an IP from a > dhcp server? "dhclient" to get an IPv4 address from a server. "dhcp6c" to get an IPv6 address from a server. > On my laptop it's dhcpcd No, that's the DHCP server daemon that doles out addresses. > What daemon does Fedora use for dhcp? Try: yum search dhcp ===================================== Matched: dhcp ===================================== dhclient.i386 : Provides the dhclient ISC DHCP client daemon and dhclient-script dhcp.i386 : DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server and relay agent dhcp-devel.i386 : Development headers and libraries for interfacing to the DHCP server libdhcp4client.i386 : ISC DHCP IPv4 client in a library for invocation from other programs libdhcp4client-devel.i386 : Header files for development with the ISC DHCP IPv4 client library NetworkManager.i386 : Network connection manager and user applications avahi-autoipd.i386 : Link-local IPv4 address automatic configuration daemon (IPv4LL) avahi-dnsconfd.i386 : Configure local unicast DNS settings based on information published in mDNS cobbler.noarch : Boot server configurator dhcp-forwarder.i386 : DHCP relay agent dhcp-forwarder-sysv.i386 : SysV initscripts for dhcp-forwarder dhcpv6.i386 : DHCPv6 - DHCP server and client for IPv6 dhcpv6-client.i386 : DHCPv6 client dnsmasq.i386 : A lightweight DHCP/caching DNS server gdhcpd.i386 : GTK+ administration tool for ISC DHCPD libdhcp.i386 : A library for network interface configuration with DHCP libdhcp-devel.i386 : C header files for development with libdhcp libdhcp6client.i386 : The DHCPv6 client in a library for invocation by other programs libdhcp6client-devel.i386 : Header files for development with the DHCPv6 client library libdhcp6client-static.i386 : Static archive for libdhcp6client nagios-plugins-dhcp.i386 : Nagios Plugin - check_dhcp rarpd.i386 : The RARP daemon. revisor-cobbler.noarch : Revisor Cobbler Integration wifiroamd.noarch : Automatic WiFi connection (re)establishment daemon wlassistant.i386 : Wireless network management tool But what are wanting to use as your DHCP server? The same computer? A different one? I thought you wanted to use your access point as it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
