Hi,

Perhaps this are getting started questions, but however:

Assume a default installation whith mode dhcp in /etc/net.cfg .

Who starts dhcp.client ?
When and where (sysinit  ?) ?

and the docs say:

-h hostname 
Hostname of client (default is supplied by the server if the hostname is available). 

Is that the hostname reported by the hostname utility ?

And are there possible dhcp-servers which doesn't provide hostnames ?

THX,
Jeevan