dhcp client does not send hostname (and / or) hardware address by default

Bug #17409 reported by Brendon Gleeson
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Bug Description

During initial Ubuntu installation, if a DHCP server is found, the parameters in
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf should be auto configured to send hostname and hardware
address to the DHCP Server. This task is trivial and prevents redundant
post-install network configuration.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10239.

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