On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 07:00:34PM -0600, Shawn wrote: > Thanks for the overview, I knew part of the DHCP process but not all > of it. I'm by no means strong in the networking aspect. I did some > digging on IPCop's website, and here is what I was referring to: [snip] > > Some ISP's, require you to provide a hostname to their DHCP server. > This probably is not IPCop's hostname. If it's needed, you can > probably use the first part of the fully qualified domain name you > noted while gathering the network parameters, above. [snip] > It looks like I'm either interpreting it wrong, or you do need to > specify an IP address and hostname. But, rather of your client > machine? Not the ISP's? This is usually known as a client identifier, it's usually not necessary. Some DHCP implementations can use this along with dynamic DNS to make your address resolve as <identifier>.isp.com If you feel the need to fill in that blank, any alphanumeric string will be sufficient. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list