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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:35:55 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan9
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"James A. Robinson" wrote:
> ipconfig(1) (located in your path as ip/ipconfig), and if you have a DHCP
> server you should be set.  I would swear that I had read in one of the
> docs that ipconfig looked up one's ethernet address in /lib/ndb/local
> and used that to set the network if it could find it. It may be that my
> /lib/ndb/local is flawed, but ipconfig could not set my ip.

I have noticed that many DHCP servers these days have no concept
of your hostname, expecting you to tell them instead of the other
way around.  This seems to be encouraged by Microsoft and partly
the result of people moving their laptops around the country.