Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Dave Miner wrote:
>
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> I have a small RFC 1918 network at home; four PCs, four Sun SPARC,
>>> two DEC Alphas and an HP printer with Jet Direct Card at the moment.
>>> It connects to Comcast via a Linksys BEFSR81 router and switch.
>>>
> <snip>
>>> I've never needed to understand more of DHCP than how to configure
>>> the PCs to use it. Is it possible to configure Solaris DHCP agent in
>>> such a way that I can have static IP addresses but get the DNS server
>>> addresses via DHCP?
>>>
>>
>> If your network interface were hme0, you may be able to use:
>>
>> ifconfig hme0 dhcp inform
>>
>> to acquire information from the DHCP server, including the DNS
>> addresses, while still using a static address, assuming the Linksys
>> router supports DHCP inform messages. However, you then have to write
>> a script to pull the DNS server and domain out of dhcp (using the
>> dhcpinfo command) to place the settings into /etc/resolv.conf. If
>> you're running Solaris 10, the /etc/dhcp/eventhook script can be used
>> to run that update automatically, read the dhcpagent man page for more
>> details.
>>
>> Dave
>
> ifconfig hme0 dhcp inform
> "timed out". This suggests to me that the BEFSR81 does not support DCHP
> Inform messages.

Yeah, I was afraid that would be the case. Too bad they cut that
particular corner, supporting Inform messages is basically free once
you've got a fully working server such as they have.

Dave