Peter Jones wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:25 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
[...]

It's worth pointing that AFAIK no current Unix DHCP
implementaions allow use of DHCPINFORM and therefore fetching of DHCP
configuration independent of getting a DHCP lease _at_all_.


AFAICS ISC's dhcpd has support for it; have a look at
dhcp-3.0.2/server/dhcp.c .  The function dhcp() marshalls commands out
to different functions, and calls dhcpinform() to parse inform queries
and send a response.

It _only_ handles inform if it's set "authoritative" for the network,
though.


Of course what I _should_ have typed is that not current Unix DHCP *clients* allow use of DHCPINFORM. A quick poke around seems to show that's true for dhclient. No doubt someone will come up with a counter-example!


Cheers,

Simon.
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