From: Guy Van Den Bergh guy.vandenbergh@pandora.be
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [LARTC] bootp_relay question
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:47:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-98373940417069@msgid-missing> (raw)
<PRE>You can use the DHCP package from ISC:
<A HREF="http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/">http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/</A>
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> I am trying to setup a Linux box to do routing between token ring and
</I>><i> ethernet. I think I am almost done, but I have having problem with the
</I>><i> bootp_relay part. I just want this router to forward a dhcp request to
</I>><i> another server that is assigned to hand out the proper dhcp information
</I>><i> back to the client. Is bootp_relay just a 0 or 1 flag and uses a config to
</I>><i> read the IP address of the server? or does it store the IP information of
</I>><i> the server in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/bootp_relay? Is there a 'giaddr'
</I>><i> field that stores this information? Is something I have to modify in a
</I>><i> header field before compiling the kernel? I am using the 2.2.16 kernel, but
</I>><i> I think it probably the same for the 2.4 kernels.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I just can't find it document how to setup the relay information.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Thank you in advance for any information,
</I>><i>
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