# DHCP and the Hurd 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