Thanks Florian your advice worked. You're right there is not much info on
this.

Ross
"Florian Anwander" <florian.anwander@consol.de> wrote in message
news:40FBF804.9050502@consol.de...
> Hi Ross
>
>
> > I have a Netgear DSL/firewall/router. It acts as a DHCP server but I
can't
> > get HP-UX 11.00 to find it.
> Doesn't it find ist or did it boot with wrong values? Assumingly you
> have a /etc/dhcpclient.data on the clients. Which prevents thath the
> machine works with dynamic DHCP.
>
> Hey, is there really no instruction in the HPUX FAQ about setting up an
> dhcp client? So here we go!
>
>
>
>
>
> Basic instructions, for setting up a HPUX dhcp client
>
> 1.)
>
> The name resolution for localhost/loopback must work without any
> network. So:
>
> /etc/hosts
> ==========
> 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
>
>
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> ==================
> hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns
>
>
>
> 2.) Setup the rc-config file for dhcp:
> /etc/rc.config.d/netconf:
> =========================
> HOSTNAME=""
> OPERATING_SYSTEM=HP-UX
> LOOPBACK_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
>
> INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan0
> IP_ADDRESS[0]=
> SUBNET_MASK[0]=255.255.255.255
> BROADCAST_ADDRESS[0]=""
> INTERFACE_STATE[0]=""
> DHCP_ENABLE[0]=1
>
> GATED=0
> GATED_ARGS=""
>
>
> RDPD=0
> RARP=0
> =========================
>
> PAY ATTENTION: In this file the hostname ist NOT set, the subnetmask is
> set to 255.255.255.255 and all route entries are removed!
>
>
>
> 3.) Remove all files, that start with dhcp
> # rm /etc/dhcp*
>
> 4.) create a blank /etc/dhcpclient.data with permissions 644:
> # touch /etc/dhcpclient.data
> # chmod 644 /etc/dhcpclient.data
>
> 5.)in /etc/inetd.conf comment the line which starts with "bootps"
>
> 6.)Create a rc file, that blanks out the /etc/dhcpclient.data at each
> shutdown. The link should be a K-Link in /sbin/rc0.d/
> (For instructions how to create a working rc script see
> /sbin/init.d/template)
>
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>
> Good Luck, Florian
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