Dhcp Software Packages - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual

Figure 35.11 DHCP Server: Network Interface and Firewall
After completing all the configuration steps, close the dialog with Ok. The server is
now started with its new configuration.

35.2 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: dhclient (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 dhclient, which is controlled by means
of the configuration file /etc/dhclient.conf.
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