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In article <19990902134834.60033@tegan.com>,
Tom Parsons  <cis@tegan.com> wrote:
>Tony Lawrence enscribed:
>| Dave Armbrust wrote:

>| > I need to set up a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 Enterprise system as an
>| > DHCP Client if possible. I do not see a way to do this under
>| > netconfig. I assume I will need to purchase or download some
>| > software to make the SCO box a DHCP Client.

>| Just a wild idea at this point, but I was thinking:

>| Suppose you just did a little Perl script or whatever that
>| acted like a DHCP client as far as getting the address info,
>| etc and then came back and did an ifconfig alias with that
>| address?

>Interesting idea.  Go for it.

>| Would that answer the typical need?  I'm just thinking out
>| loud; haven't begun to try this, but the issue is going to
>| come up soon for me, too, because this back-water town is
>| finally going to get cable internet access, but the machine
>| needs to be a DHCP client.  I could switch to my Linux box
>| for that, but the one remaining feature that SCO has and
>| Linux doesn't is Merge, which I need for Quickbooks.

>If you convince your neighbors they need huge hard drives for 
>cable modem service, just think of all the extra disk space
>you will have available.  :-)

A friend tested the DHCP hijacking bug that was found about 2 weeks
ago on his Road Runner connection.  Totally screwed things up.
Be aware that Win98 will set it's address to 165.x.x.x (don't
remember the full string) if it doesn't get response from
a DHCP server in time.

(for the DHCP hijacking stuff go to www.l0pht.com

-- 
Bill Vermillion   bv @ wjv.com 

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