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| author | Jochen Frieling <jfr@pengutronix.de> | 2011-06-24 10:35:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Jochen Frieling <jfr@pengutronix.de> | 2011-06-24 10:35:13 +0200 |
| commit | 1fd49d8b7a2aed078e73a8632a688dab74fee397 (patch) | |
| tree | 02e8ad4a6a06c06effeaa807fe4722b0b41f082b /rules/dhcp.in | |
| parent | 3a9ea33783ba99476d12689ab78519a1863bc409 (diff) | |
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rules files: added missing help texts
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| -rw-r--r-- | rules/dhcp.in | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/rules/dhcp.in b/rules/dhcp.in index 018619827..f2b920c1b 100644 --- a/rules/dhcp.in +++ b/rules/dhcp.in @@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ config DHCP_SERVER bool prompt "DHCP Server dhcpd" help - FIXME + This is the main component of the DHCP server, the daemon process + that allows a server to provide a Dynamic Host Configuration + Protocol service to a network. + It takes its configuration from /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf and tracks + issued addresses as records in the dhcpd.leases file. config DHCP_DHCPD_CONF bool "Install /etc/dhcpd.conf" @@ -67,6 +71,16 @@ config DHCP_RELAY bool prompt "DHCP Relay dhcrelay" help - FIXME + The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Relay Agent, dhcrelay, provides a + means for relaying DHCP and BOOTP requests from a subnet to which no + DHCP server is directly connected to one or more DHCP servers on other + subnets. + + The DHCP Relay Agent listens for DHCP and BOOTP queries and responses. + When a query is received from a client, dhcrelay forwards it to the + list of DHCP servers specified on the command line. When a reply is + received from a server, it is broadcast or unicast (according to the + relay agent's ability or the client's request) on the network from + which the original request came. endif |