J Carlson wrote:
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> There is probably an obvious awnser to this but im just not
> seeing it. I have a single ethernet card in my esmith box.
> I already have a DHCP server on my local network; how can I
> get my esmith box to accept a DHCP address? I cant find an
> option to do this. I have use the cmd line 'dhcpcd eth0'
> and that will get an address, but I dont want to have to use
> that every time I boot it up. Am I missing somthing?
Youve ensured that firstly the dhcp service on the e-smith server is disabled Im sure.
To get e-smith to use a dhcpd lease on a single card youll need to
mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
cp /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0/template-end /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0/.
Then make a template-begin fragment eg:
cat <
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0/template-begin
#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# e-smith server and gateway software. Instead, modify the source
# template in the /etc/e-smith/templates-custom directory. For more
# information, see http://www.e-smith.org.
#
# copyright (C) 1999-2001 e-smith, inc.
#------------------------------------------------------------
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
EOF
(ignore the cat and EOF lines if your just pasting into the file)
Then expand the file /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and you should be fine.
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Damien
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