How do I tell the system to use dhclient?

kralyk · 2009-05-26 17:00:43

Hello everyone,

I just installed arch on my new dell laptop.
My cable ethernet adapter (not the wirekless one) - eth1 - is set to use dhcp,
however, dhcpcd doesn't work for me for some reason:

dhcpcd eth1

doesnt get the address, it times out

dhclient, on the other hand, works pretty well out of the box. When I issue

dhclient eth1

it gets me IP address in like 2 seconds.

The problem is I have to type this command every time I want my LAN connection to work,
because running

/etc/rc.d/network restart

returns error: /sbin/dhcpcd: file was not found
which is obvious since I don't use dhcpcd,
so how do I tell my system to invoke dhclient instead of dhcpcd ???

Thanks for your answers and sorry for my bad english...

SpeedVin · 2009-05-26 17:04:48

Do you have in rc.conf eth1 or eth0=(dhcp) ?

kralyk · 2009-05-26 17:15:01

in my rc.conf I have eth1="dhcp"

Mr.Elendig · 2009-05-26 17:17:52

fork the network script and replace dhcpcd with dhclient (don't forget to create a conf.d/dhclient)

kralyk · 2009-05-26 17:19:14

You mean edit the network script directly? ok

and what should conf.d/dhclient look like?

Mr.Elendig · 2009-05-26 17:39:32

not edit it, fork it, so that you still have the original script in place, just in case.

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How do I tell the system to use dhclient?

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