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authorTed Lemon <source@isc.org>2001-06-27 00:31:20 +0000
committerTed Lemon <source@isc.org>2001-06-27 00:31:20 +0000
commitd758ad8cac9c00c70cfe4dd459bf7e87c268c579 (patch)
tree85d7e10e40b0e1061a40f45ef0e9f44073346482 /relay
parent07b958004f4e39f9b222115b1b050044a2434ea1 (diff)
downloadisc-dhcp-d758ad8cac9c00c70cfe4dd459bf7e87c268c579.tar.gz
Merge changes between 3.0rc7 and 3.0rc8pl2.
Diffstat (limited to 'relay')
-rw-r--r--relay/dhcrelay.823
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/relay/dhcrelay.8 b/relay/dhcrelay.8
index b7874cc2..ae6801f8 100644
--- a/relay/dhcrelay.8
+++ b/relay/dhcrelay.8
@@ -106,18 +106,17 @@ are specified on the command line dhcrelay will identify all network
interfaces, elimininating non-broadcast interfaces if possible, and
attempt to configure each interface.
.PP
-If a relay agent is running on a system that is connected to one or
-more networks on which no DHCP servers are present, and is also
-connected to one or more networks on which DHCP servers
-.I are
-connected, it is may not be helpful for the relay agent to relay
-requests from those networks on which a DHCP server already exists.
-To avoid such a situation, the interfaces on which the relay agent
-should listen should be specified with the
+The
.B -i
-flag.
-.PP
-Note that in some cases it
+flag can be used to specify the network interfaces on which the relay
+agent should listen. In general, it must listen not only on those
+network interfaces to which clients are attached, but also on those
+network interfaces to which the server (or the router that reaches the
+server) is attached. However, in some cases it may be necessary to
+exclude some networks; in this case, you must list all those network
+interfaces that should \fInot\fR be excluded using the \fB-i\fR flag.
+.PP
+In some cases it
.I is
helpful for the relay agent to forward requests from networks on which
a DHCP server is running to other DHCP servers. This would be the
@@ -138,7 +137,7 @@ flag should be specified. This is useful when running dhcrelay under
a debugger, or when running it out of inittab on System V systems.
.PP
Dhcrelay will normally print its network configuration on startup.
-This can be annoying in a system startup script - to disable this
+This can be unhelpful in a system startup script - to disable this
behaviour, specify the
.B -q
flag.