[BusyBox] udhcpc problem (new newbie question)

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 18 September 2003 18:23, Fernando Pena López wrote:
> "Russ Dill" <Russ.Dill at asu.edu> wrote:
> >some providers don't do straight dhcp, and some providers require that
> >your mac address match up with what is in their records.
>
> I know, but it's not the case. The target machine now runs Debian Potato,
> using
> dhclient v3.0.1rc9 to get the net's configuration, and it works ok.
> Some time ago, the cablemodem was conected to a windoze machine (other than
> the actual, with other nic) without problems.
> The failure seems to be relative to ucdhcp, but I don't know why it is.
>
> Thanks

The third thing providers do is require you to submit your hostname as part of 
the dhcp transaction, and match against that instead of mac address.  (From a 
windows user's perspective, this lets them swap out the hardware and still 
connect as long as they use the same install procedure.)

Rob