My IP address with DHCP

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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In my opinion, that wasn't your mistake. I would have assumed the
same thing given that wording. Sounds to me like somebody needs to
update the wording to be more clear. For example Address Assigned by
DHCP Server or something like that.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: My IP address with DHCP


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> Hi Greg,
>
> Sorry for the confusion. I misinterpreted the phrase "dhcp server
> address" to mean the address of the server, but I am convinced
> now that it meant the address given to me by the server. Anyway,
> proceeding on that assumption works and nothing else makes sense.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I have to agree with Steve here, there is no sense in a script
asking
> > for the address of a dhcp server, I haven't seen a program that asks
> > for such a thing yet. When a dhcp client wants to contact a dhcp
> > server to obtain an ip address, it broadcasts a pac request on I
> > believe 255.255.255.255 on udp port 67, and the dhcp server for the
> > network to which the client is connected responds. The address
> > reported as the inet addr for your network interface by ifconfig is
> > your address (the one the rest of the world contacts you by, and the
> > one you use when contacting the rest of the world).
> >
> > Greg
>
>
>
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