Re: DHCP

["Michael J. McGillick" <mike universe ne mediaone net>]

Hal:

Thanks.  This is great.  Would you happen to know what file this
information is stored in?

- Mike

On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 09:02:13PM -0500, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> > I have a cable modem that I use for my Internet connection.  My
> > service is with Media One here in Massachusetts.  My connection is
> > working just fine.  At boot-up, I have my system configured to use
> > DHCP to get my IP Address.
> > 
> > I'm currently working on my firewall, and one of the things I need
> > to allow through is my DHCP server.  After the machine boots up, and
> > establishes an Internet connection, is there a file on my system
> > that tells me what DHCP server I'm talking to?  I know resolv.conf
> > shows the addresses of the nameservers, and my ipchains script
> > nicely parses this information out and allows access to it, but I
> > need to determine the DHCP server, and any other ports I may need to
> > leave open for it.
> 
> If you are using pump, 'pump -s' gives you all this.
> 
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> Hal B
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