[openbeos] Re: OBOS Networking
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:06:42 +0200 (MEST)
En réponse à "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I recently signed up to work on the Networking team, and I was
> > asked to
> > work on DHCP and PPP. Now, from what I see on my system, dhcp is
> > done by two
> > programs, dhcpd and dhcp_client. I don't know anything about how
> > these
> > interface with the rest of the networking environment (do they simply
>
> > act like
> > daemons, doing the dhcp work and spitting out the IP info in the std
>
> > out??),
> > and if anyone knows much about this, I'd love to hear it. I need a
> > starting
> > point.
>
> dhcpd is a server that will provide IP address to other computers. It
> is not strictly necessary. dhcp_client is what actually gets an IP from
>
> a server and assigns it to a local interface.
>
Yeah, I actually missled you, this was caused by Linux having als something
called dhcpcd (CD= client daemon), that does what the background part of
dhcp_client does.
>
> As I said, all the DHCP client will do is request an IP, get an answer
>
> and assign it to an interface. just check the ifconfig code and you
> will see how that works. For actually getting the IP you will have to
> read the RFC that explains DHCP (I don't have the number handy right
> now).
>
At least
http://www.abcdrfc.free.fr/rfc-vo/rfc2485.txt
http://www.abcdrfc.free.fr/rfc-vo/rfc2132.txt
http://www.abcdrfc.free.fr/rfc-vo/rfc2131.txt
François.
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