From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guy Van Den Bergh guy.vandenbergh@pandora.be Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:47:17 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] bootp_relay question Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 
You can use the DHCP package from ISC:
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/

It contains a client, a server and a relay agent.
Relaying DHCP is not done in-kernel, as far as I know...

Regards,
Guy

Scott Purdy wrote:

> I am trying to setup a Linux box to do routing between token ring and
> ethernet.  I think I am almost done, but I have having problem with the
> bootp_relay part.  I just want this router to forward a dhcp request to
> another server that is assigned to hand out the proper dhcp information
> back to the client.  Is bootp_relay just a 0 or 1 flag and uses a config to
> read the IP address of the server? or does it store the IP information of
> the server in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/bootp_relay? Is there a 'giaddr'
> field that stores this information? Is something I have to modify in a
> header field before compiling the kernel? I am using the 2.2.16 kernel, but
> I think it probably the same for the 2.4 kernels.
> 
> I just can't find it document how to setup the relay information.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any information,
> 
> Scott
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