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| author | Shawn Routhier <sar@isc.org> | 2011-04-25 23:43:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Shawn Routhier <sar@isc.org> | 2011-04-25 23:43:16 +0000 |
| commit | fc06ee4f46fbf68560abd2adeee8edeac5cc2997 (patch) | |
| tree | f4cb1eddda1c6e57145e5e37d8b67f4f948f6711 /README | |
| parent | 656b1ecebe193cace9afc6be7b370e541f81a7df (diff) | |
| download | isc-dhcp-fc06ee4f46fbf68560abd2adeee8edeac5cc2997.tar.gz | |
Documentation fixes
[ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
responses to the all-ones address.
[ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
[ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
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@@ -477,10 +477,26 @@ server and relay will work only on a single interface. (They do work on multi-interface machines if configured to listen on only one of the interfaces.) +We have reports of Windows XP clients having difficutly retrieving +addresses from a server running on an AIX machine. This issue +was traced to the client requiring messages be sent to the all ones +broadcast address (255.255.255.255) while the AIX server was sending +to 192.168.0.255. + +You may be able to solve this by including a relay between the client +and server with the relay configured to use a broadcast of all-ones. + +A second option that worked for AIX 5.1 but doesn't seem to work for +AIX 5.3 was to: + create a host file entry for all-ones (255.255.255.255) +and then add a route: + route add -host all-ones -interface <local-ip-address> + The ISC DHCP distribution does not include a dhclient-script for AIX-- AIX comes with a DHCP client. Contribution of a working dhclient-script for AIX would be welcome. + MacOS X The MacOS X system uses a TCP/IP stack derived from FreeBSD with a |