dhclient instead of pump

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: dhclient instead of pump
started by: Werpon

Posted by Werpon on Nov. 14 2005,10:52

Hello, I've been testing DSL (1.5 and 2.0) and it's awesome. But I've found that pump does not play nice with my 3com 812 DSL router. dhclient works OK. Is there any possibility to replace pump with dhclient?

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 14 2005,15:04

Pump is less than half the size of dhclient, so I doubt it will be replaced.

You might try making pump identify itself like Windows.

Code Sample

pump -win-client-ident -i eth0

That plays nicer wuith some routers than don't like the generic dhcp request, but doesn't work on others that do work with the normal request.

Play with the settings for pump, and see what happens.

-J.P.

Posted by Werpon on Nov. 14 2005,17:37

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately "pump --win-client-id -i eth0" doesn't work either. I will test more options, and if I find something I'll post it here.