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authorTed Lemon <source@isc.org>1999-03-26 19:19:46 +0000
committerTed Lemon <source@isc.org>1999-03-26 19:19:46 +0000
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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