Beginning of /etc/dhclient.conf file: # Configuration file for /sbin/dhclient, which is included in Debian's # dhcp3-client package. # # This is a sample configuration file for dhclient. See dhclient.conf's # man page for more information about the syntax of this file # and a more comprehensive list of the parameters understood by # dhclient. # # Normally, if the DHCP server provides reasonable information and does # not leave anything out (like the domain name, for example), then # few changes must be made to this file, if any. # #send host-name "andare.fugue.com"; #send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c; #send dhcp-lease-time 3600; #supersede domain-name "fugue.com home.vix.com"; prepend search bar; #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name, netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu; #require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers; ####### Errors when trying to use (note that I didn't touch line 20...) : jthomas@jthomas:~$ sudo dhclient eth0 There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 11230 killed old client process, removed PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf line 18: no option named search prepend search bar; ^ /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf line 20: semicolon expected. request ^ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:4c:a5:21 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:4c:a5:21 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 10.10.13.1 bound to 10.10.13.173 -- renewal in 122426 seconds. jthomas@jthomas:~$