Re: Instructing dhclient to set hostname of client

Doug Barton wrote:
If you're talking about a laptop where you're not sure what the DHCP server is going to send you, then I have this in /etc/rc.local:

Hi, Doug.

What you think about adding a new feature to dhclient - Alternate IP Configuration. This configuration can be specified in dhclient.conf
and take effect when a DHCP server not respond. MS Windows have a
similar feature.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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