DHCRELAY(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DHCRELAY(8)NAMEdhcrelay - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Relay Agent
SYNOPSISdhcrelay [-d] -i interface server1 [... serverN]
DESCRIPTION
The dhcrelay utility provides a means for relaying DHCP and BOOTP re-
quests from a subnet to which no DHCP server is directly connected to one
or more DHCP servers on other subnets.
dhcrelay listens for DHCP requests on a given interface. When a query is
received, dhcrelay forwards it to the list of DHCP servers specified on
the command line. When a reply is received, it is broadcast or unicast on
the network from whence the original request came.
The name of at least one DHCP server to which DHCP and BOOTP requests
should be relayed, as well as the name of the network interface that
dhcrelay should attempt to configure, must be specified on the command
line.
The options are as follows:
-ddhcrelay normally runs in the foreground until it has configured
an interface, and then reverts to running in the background. This
option forces dhcrelay to always run as a foreground process.
-i interface
The name of the network interface that dhcrelay should attempt to
configure.
SEE ALSOdhclient(8), dhcpd(8)
RFC 2132, RFC 2131.
AUTHORSdhcrelay was written by Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>.
The current implementation was reworked by
Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>.
BUGS
Relayed DHCP traffic could actually safely be protected by IPsec but,
like dhcpd(8) and dhclient(8), dhcrelay will bypass IPsec for all its
traffic.
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