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author | Shawn Routhier <sar@isc.org> | 2011-06-27 16:00:32 +0000 |
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committer | Shawn Routhier <sar@isc.org> | 2011-06-27 16:00:32 +0000 |
commit | 7cfeb9160de5c62e091429395c76ec7e28ac2f72 (patch) | |
tree | 5fec6f2bda301e11aad4f40306e2b2bcce86ded3 /README | |
parent | ade10315e1b6cd8795da0e53e03d58ce41b91dfa (diff) | |
download | isc-dhcp-7cfeb9160de5c62e091429395c76ec7e28ac2f72.tar.gz |
In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
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@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ the ISC DHCP Distribution. 5.6 FreeBSD 5.7 NeXTSTEP 5.8 SOLARIS + 5.8.1 Solaris 11 + 5.8.2 Other Solaris Items 5.9 AIX 5.10 MacOS X 6 SUPPORT @@ -416,8 +418,8 @@ The first is that older Sun compilers generate an error on some of our uses of the flexible array option. Newer versions only generate a warning, which can be safely ignored. If you run into this error ("type of struct member "buf" can not be derived from structure with -flexible array member"), upgrade your tools to Sun Studio 12 or -something newer. +flexible array member"), upgrade your tools to Oracle Solaris Studio +(previously Sun Studio) 12 or something newer. The second is the interaction between the configure script and the makefiles for the Bind libraries. Currently we don't pass all @@ -435,6 +437,21 @@ following commands: CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc make + Solaris 11 + +We have integrated a patch from Oracle to use sockets instead of +DLPI on Solaris 11. This functionality was written for use with +Solaris Studio 12.2 and requires the system/header package. + +By default this code is disabled in order to minimize disruptions +for current users. In order to enable this code you will need to +enable both USE_SOCKETS and USE_V4_PKTINFO as part of the +configuration step. The command line would be something like: + + ./configure --enable-use-sockets --enable-ipv4-pktinfo + + Other Solaris Items + One problem which has been observed and is not fixed in this patchlevel has to do with using DLPI on Solaris machines. The symptom of this problem is that the DHCP server never receives any requests. |