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author | Ted Lemon <source@isc.org> | 1999-03-26 19:19:46 +0000 |
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committer | Ted Lemon <source@isc.org> | 1999-03-26 19:19:46 +0000 |
commit | 2d1b06e071253c6850a1d27ca9b7857620ccc5a5 (patch) | |
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download | isc-dhcp-2d1b06e071253c6850a1d27ca9b7857620ccc5a5.tar.gz |
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Internet Software Consortium Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Distribution Version 3, Alpha Snapshot - March 15, 1998 + March 26, 1998 This is an alpha test snapshot of Version 3 of the Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution. In version 3, this distribution @@ -10,6 +10,51 @@ This alpha is believed to be relatively stable, but it is definitely not something you should be running in a production environment where stability is your highest priority. + DOCUMENTATION + +Documentation for this software includes this README file, the +RELNOTES file, and the manual pages, which are in the server, common, +client and relay subdirectories. Internet standards relating to the +DHCP protocol are stored in the doc subdirectory. You will have the +best luck reading the manual pages if you build this software and then +install it, although you can read them directly out of the +distribution if you need to. + +DHCP server documentation is in the dhcpd man page. Information about +the DHCP server lease database is in the dhcpd.leases man page. +Server configuration documentation is in the dhcpd.conf man page as +well as the dhcp-options man page. A sample DHCP server +configuration is in the file server/dhcpd.conf. + +DHCP Client documentation is in the dhclient man page. DHCP client +configuration documentation is in the dhclient.conf man page and the +dhcp-options man page. The DHCP client configuration script is +documented in the dhclient-script man page. The format of the DHCP +client lease database is documented in the dhclient.leases man page. + +DHCP relay agent documentation is in the dhcrelay man page. + +To read installed manual pages, use the man command. Type "man page" +where page is the name of the manual page. + +If you want to read manual pages that aren't installed, you can type +``nroff -man page |more'' where page is the filename of the +unformatted manual page. The filename of an unformatted manual page +is the name of the manual page, followed by '.', followed by some +number - 5 for documentation about files, and 8 for documentation +about programs. + +If you do not have the nroff command, you can type ``more catpage'' +where catpage is the filename of the catted man page. Catted man +pages names are the name of the manual page followed by ".cat" +followed by 5 or 8, as with unformatted manual pages. + +Please note that until you install the manual pages, the pathnames of +files to which they refer will not be correct for your operating +system. + + RELEASE STATUS + In this release, the server and relay agent currently work well on NetBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, Ultrix, Digital Alpha OSF/1, and SunOS 4.1.4. They can also be run usefully on Solaris as long as only one @@ -46,9 +91,9 @@ information. On Digital Unix, type ``man pfilt''. To build the DHCP Distribution, unpack the compressed tar file using the tar utility and the gzip command - type something like: - zcat dhcp-3.0-alpha-19990315.tar.gz |tar xvf - + zcat dhcp-3.0-alpha-19990326.tar.gz |tar xvf - -Now, cd to the dhcp-3.0-alpha-19990315 subdirectory that you've just +Now, cd to the dhcp-3.0-alpha-19990326 subdirectory that you've just created and configure the source tree by typing: ./configure |