> i used DHCP under Debian 2.0 at the beginning of the year with no trouble.
> the only problem was my vanity IP. my linux box was "spork.je.yale.edu" (no
> port scans, please), but DHCPcd would still give me
> "netXX-YYY.student.yale.edu", so i just hardcoded my IP. also saves me from
> DHCP server problems (my win98-using roommates complain about getting error
> messages all the time about loosing the lease on their IPs)
that's what makes this even more of an amazing/weird feat, because I was
aware of all the vanity name problems involved with dhcp here earlier, and
I do have a vanity ip also for my machine, and it *still* worked fine,
without me having to do any compensation whatsoever for the vanity ip.
Hmmmm...maybe DHCP does have some promise after all...
dave