DHCP.

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
index 15ca9c83..62fd3574 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ If the NIC was detected:
 
     # settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 192.168.1.3 -g 192.168.1.1 -m 255.255.255.0
 
-In order to use DHCP, you need to install the `dhcp-client` package and run `dhclient eth0` etc.
+Or read about how to configure [[DHCP]].
+
 
 # Setup GRUB
 
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f316981d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_porting]]
+
+In order to use DHCP, you need to install the `ifup` and `isc-dhcp-client`
+packages, and manually create the following two symbolic links:
+
+    # ln -s ../rcS.d/S06ifupdown-clean ../rcS.d/S11networking /etc/rc.boot/
+
+During execution at boot time, the `S11networking` script will emit some error
+messages while trying to configure the loopback interface.  These are not
+fatal.
+
+Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't currently execute's Debian standard `/etc/rcS.d/*` boot
+scripts, but has its own `/libexec/rc` script -- which integrates scripts from
+`/etc/rc.boot/` instead.