[BusyBox] DHCP client

Matthew Franz mfranz at cisco.com
Thu Apr 19 10:11:37 UTC 2001


> > Hi,
> > 
> > What is the best way to do DHCP on an embedded Busybox system? I've
> > found pump as suggested at http://busybox.net/software.html,
> > but it needs libpopt0, which altogether seems a little too big. Is there
> > a smaller alternative?
> > 
> 
> Latest 2.2.x kernels have DHCP kernel autoconfiguration option. As for
> me, it works quite well. For 2.4, dhcpcd is probably the best solution.
> 

Has anyone been able to compile any of the dhcp clients (such as dhcpcd)
with uClibc?

-mdf

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Matthew Franz
Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit
http://trinux.sourceforge.net






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