Wireless problems. UPDATE

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Jun 25 18:25:10 UTC 2008


Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:01 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>> dhcp6c is the IPv6 dhcp client right? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Okay, that being the case, what app does Fedora use get an IP from a 
>> dhcp server?
> 
> "dhclient" to get an IPv4 address from a server.
> "dhcp6c" to get an IPv6 address from a server.
> 
>> On my laptop it's dhcpcd
> 
> No, that's the DHCP server daemon that doles out addresses.
> 
>> What daemon does Fedora use for dhcp?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> But what are wanting to use as your DHCP server?  The same computer?  A
> different one?  I thought you wanted to use your access point as it.
> 

No, I just needed the right client to get a dhcp lease from the AP. 
That's all.


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