🐧 nixCraft → Howto → CentOS → Configuring Linux Static DHCP Clients by Sending Host Name Q. My DHCP server configured to assign static IPs to few Debian / Ubuntu Linux boxes using hostnames. My Windows 2000 and XP client computer sends hostname automatically. How do I send my hostname under Linux using dhcp client? A. By default, the DHCP server requests the subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-o