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author | Henning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-04-13 01:17:50 +0000 |
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committer | Henning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-04-13 01:17:50 +0000 |
commit | 9580d3955ba7056160fff62b688fc71a00657ded (patch) | |
tree | 4bc360d6450aaef06d05fa382b6eaeb9f3988e8d /usr.sbin/dhcrelay/dhcrelay.8 | |
parent | 655f45137c9b293b16a89a50c2fe69e14d16af39 (diff) |
closer to reality
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/dhcrelay/dhcrelay.8')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/dhcrelay/dhcrelay.8 | 60 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/dhcrelay/dhcrelay.8 b/usr.sbin/dhcrelay/dhcrelay.8 index cc814ff5bfd..6078ab8f893 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/dhcrelay/dhcrelay.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/dhcrelay/dhcrelay.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: dhcrelay.8,v 1.1 2004/04/12 21:10:28 henning Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: dhcrelay.8,v 1.2 2004/04/13 01:17:49 henning Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 The Internet Software Consortium. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -36,32 +36,28 @@ .\" see ``http://www.isc.org/isc''. To learn more about Vixie .\" Enterprises, see ``http://www.vix.com''. .\" -.Dd January 1, 1997 +.Dd April 12, 2004 .Dt DHCRELAY 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm dhcrelay .Nd Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Relay Agent .Sh SYNOPSIS -.Nm dhcrelay -.Op Fl p Ar port +.Nm .Op Fl d .Op Fl q -.Xo -.Oo Fl i Ar if0 Oo Ar ... -.Fl i Ar ifN Oc Oc -.Xc +.Op Fl p Ar port +.Fl i Ar interface .Ar server0 Op Ar ... serverN .Sh DESCRIPTION -The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Relay Agent, -.Nm dhcrelay , -provides a means for relaying DHCP and BOOTP requests from a subnet to which -no DHCP server is directly connected to one or more DHCP servers on other -subnets. +The +.Nm +utility provides a means for relaying DHCP and BOOTP requests from a subnet +to which no DHCP server is directly connected to one or more DHCP servers on +other subnets. .Sh OPERATION -The DHCP Relay Agent listens for DHCP requests on all interfaces -attached to a host, unless one or more interfaces are specified on the -command line with the +.Nm +listens for DHCP requests on the interface given via the .Fl i flag. .Pp @@ -71,25 +67,12 @@ forwards it to the list of DHCP servers specified on the command line. When a reply is received, it is broadcast or unicast on the network from whence the original request came. .Pp -It is possible to specify a set of interfaces on which -.Nm -will listen, so that if -.Nm -is connected through one interface to a network on which there is no DHCP -server, but is connected on another interface to a network on which there -is a DHCP server, it will not relay DHCP and BOOTP requests from the network -on which the server exists to that server. -This is an imperfect solution. .Sh COMMAND LINE -The names of the network interfaces that +The name of the network interface that .Nm -should attempt to configure may be specified on the command line using the +should attempt to configure must be specified on the command line using the .Fl i option. -If no interface names are specified on the command line, -.Nm -will identify all network interfaces, eliminating non-broadcast interfaces -if possible, and attempt to configure each interface. .Pp If .Nm @@ -120,9 +103,6 @@ To force to always run as a foreground process, the .Fl d flag should be specified. -This is useful when running -.Nm -under a debugger, or when running it out of inittab on System V systems. .Pp .Nm will normally print its network configuration on startup. @@ -140,13 +120,11 @@ should be relayed must be specified on the command line. RFC 2132, RFC 2131. .Sh AUTHORS .Nm -has been written for the Internet Software Consortium by -.An Ted Lemon Aq mellon@fugue.com -in cooperation with Vixie Enterprises. -To learn more about the Internet Software Consortium, see -.Pa http://www.vix.com/isc . -To learn more about Vixie Enterprises, see -.Pa http://www.vix.com . +was written by +.An Ted Lemon Aq mellon@fugue.com . +.Pp +The current implementation was reworked by +.An Henning Brauer Aq henning@openbsd.org . .Sh BUGS Relayed DHCP traffic could actually safely be protected by IPsec, but like |