Dhcp Software Packages - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Figure 22.11 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.

22.2 DHCP Software Packages

Both the DHCP server and the DHCP clients are available for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server. The DHCP server available is dhcpd (published by the Internet Systems Con-
sortium). 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 Server 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 con-
trolled by means of the configuration file /etc/dhclient.conf.
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