5 files changed, 80 insertions, 7 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.
diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
index aea20ae8..3f4d7a0b 100644
--- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
@@ -228,9 +228,7 @@ If you just want to access the internet from within QEMU, you can setup pfinet f
     # settrans -afgp /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 10.0.2.15 -g 10.0.2.2 -m 255.255.255.0
     # echo "nameserver 10.0.2.3" > /etc/resolv.conf
 
-Alternately DHCP does work now:
-
-    # dhclient eth0
+If you are on [[Debian GNU/Hurd|debian]], you can even use [[debian/DHCP]].
 
 To get ssh working:
 
diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn
index cbe50b48..f6f69ea4 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 Free Software
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software
 Foundation, Inc."]]
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 To configure Internet connectivity, the `pfinet` (*Protocol Family Internet*)
 [[translator]] must be configured.  This is done using the
@@ -31,5 +31,8 @@ installation.
 
 ---
 
+  * [[DHCP]].
+
   * [[Implementation]].
+
   * [[IPv6]].
diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet/dhcp.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet/dhcp.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..17776fa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/translator/pfinet/dhcp.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+According to the following thread, no port should be needed since all the patches that have been applied, including the one concerning the thread. In fact, the thread finishes without concluding whether the patch has been applied or not. You can grab it in the thread, anyway.
+
+[Link to thread](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-01/msg00025.html)
+
+The thread starts at Jan 4th 2005 until Jan 6th and is only retaken at April 14th in [this thread](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-01/msg00025.html).
+
+-- [[Main/ThadeuCascardo]] - 29 Sep 2005
+
+No DHCP client has been ported to the Hurd yet.
+
+[This](http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-10/msg00016.html) thread on help-hurd has a little more info on what's still needed for DHCP.
+
+-- [[Main/GregBuchholz]] - 09 Oct 2003
+
+Found this [message](http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2003-08/msg00045.html) about DHCP capabilities in the Hurd encouraging.
+
+-- [[Main/GregBuchholz]] - 03 Sep 2003
+
+* Tom Hart began a [discussion ](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-October/006643.html) of 14 posts in Oct 2002.
+
+-- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 20 Oct 2002
+
+The beginnings of a DHCP translator is available in the Hurd sources on Savannah: [hurd/trans/pump.c](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/hurd/hurd/trans/pump.c?rev=1.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup)
+
+Unfortunately our current TCP/IP stack, the pfinet translator, lacks support for the AF\_PACKET interface as well as sending packets with an IP address of 0.0.0.0.
+
+Grant Bowman on bug-hurd:
+
+    Herbert Xu (Pump maintainer) told me that to operate correctly, pump
+    uses the AF_PACKET interface which is only present in 2.2.
+
+    Anyone else know the status of getting these compiled and functional?
+
+Neal Walfield on bug-hurd replies:
+
+    > Anyone else know the status of getting these compiled and functional?
+
+    We need to be able to send to the DHCP server with ip address 0.0.0.0.
+
+-- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 12 Nov 2002
+
+---
+
+[[Debian GNU/Hurd|running/debian]] has some script hackery to get
+[[running/debian/DHCP]] going.