Dhcp Software Packages - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual

Figure 34.11 DHCP Server: Network Interface and Firewall
After completing all configuration steps, close the dialog with Ok. The server is now
started with its new configuration.

34.2 DHCP Software Packages

Both a DHCP server and DHCP clients are available for SUSE Linux Enterprise. The
DHCP server available is dhcpd (published by the Internet Software Consortium). On
the client side, choose between two different DHCP client programs: dhcp-client
(also from ISC) and the DHCP client daemon in the dhcpcd package.
SUSE Linux Enterprise installs dhcpcd by default. The program is very easy to handle
and is launched automatically on each system boot to watch for a DHCP server. It does
not need a configuration file to do its job and works out of the box in most standard
setups. For more complex situations, use the ISC dhcp-client, which is controlled by
means of the configuration file /etc/dhclient.conf.
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