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Update README to remove most notes on compilation for various obsolete OSes as... 

Update README to remove most notes on compilation for various obsolete OSes as these instructions are very out of date and possibly misleading.
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5.2.4 BROADCAST
5.2.6 IP BOOTP AGENT
5.2.7 MULTIPLE INTERFACES
5.3 SCO
5.4 HP-UX
5.5 ULTRIX
5.6 FreeBSD
5.7 NeXTSTEP
5.8 SOLARIS
5.8.1 Solaris 11
5.8.2 Solaris 11 and ATF
5.8.3 Other Solaris Items
5.9 AIX
5.10 MacOS X
5.11 ATF
5.3 ATF
6 SUPPORT
6.1 HOW TO REPORT BUGS
7 HISTORY
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Linux kernel must rewrite packets received via this interface. For
more information, consult the vconfig man pages.
SCO
ISC DHCP will now work correctly on newer versions of SCO out of the
box (tested on OpenServer 5.05b, assumed to work on UnixWare 7).
Older versions of SCO have the same problem as Linux (described earlier).
The thing is, SCO *really* doesn't want to let you add a host route to
the all-ones broadcast address.
You can try the following:
ifconfig net0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xNNNNNNNN broadcast 255.255.255.255
If this doesn't work, you can also try the following strange hack:
ifconfig net0 alias 10.1.1.1 netmask 8.0.0.0
Apparently this works because of an interaction between SCO's support
for network classes and the weird netmask. The 10.* network is just a
dummy that can generally be assumed to be safe. Don't ask why this
works. Just try it. If it works for you, great.
HP-UX
HP-UX has the same problem with the all-ones broadcast address that
SCO and Linux have. One user reported that adding the following to
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf helped (you may have to modify this to suit
your local configuration):
INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan0
IP_ADDRESS[0]=1.1.1.1
SUBNET_MASK[0]=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST_ADDRESS[0]="255.255.255.255"
LANCONFIG_ARGS[0]="ether"
DHCP_ENABLE[0]=0
ULTRIX
Now that we have Ultrix packet filter support, the DHCP Distribution
on Ultrix should be pretty trouble-free. However, one thing you do
need to be aware of is that it now requires that the pfilt device be
configured into your kernel and present in /dev. If you type ``man
packetfilter'', you will get some information on how to configure your
kernel for the packet filter (if it isn't already) and how to make an
entry for it in /dev.
FreeBSD
Versions of FreeBSD prior to 2.2 have a bug in BPF support in that the
ethernet driver swaps the ethertype field in the ethernet header
downstream from BPF, which corrupts the output packet. If you are
running a version of FreeBSD prior to 2.2, and you find that dhcpd
can't communicate with its clients, you should #define BROKEN_FREEBSD_BPF
in site.h and recompile.
Modern versions of FreeBSD include the ISC DHCP 3.0 client as part of
the base system, and the full distribution (for the DHCP server and
relay agent) is available from the Ports Collection in
/usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3, or as a package on FreeBSD installation
CDROMs.
NeXTSTEP
The NeXTSTEP support uses the NeXTSTEP Berkeley Packet Filter
extension, which is not included in the base NextStep system. You
must install this extension in order to get dhcpd or dhclient to work.
SOLARIS
There are two known issues seen when compiling using the Sun compiler.
The first is that older Sun compilers generate an error on some of
our uses of the flexible array option. Newer versions only generate
a warning, which can be safely ignored. If you run into this error
("type of struct member "buf" can not be derived from structure with
flexible array member"), upgrade your tools to Oracle Solaris Studio
(previously Sun Studio) 12 or something newer.
The second is the interaction between the configure script and the
makefiles for the Bind libraries. Currently we don't pass all
environment variables between the DHCP configure and the Bind configure.
If you attempt to specify the compiler you wish to use like this:
CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure
"make" may not build the Bind libraries with that compiler.
In order to use the same compiler for Bind and DHCP we suggest the
following commands:
CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure
CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc make
Solaris 11
We have integrated a patch from Oracle to use sockets instead of
DLPI on Solaris 11. This functionality was written for use with
Solaris Studio 12.2 and requires the system/header package.
By default this code is disabled in order to minimize disruptions
for current users. In order to enable this code you will need to
enable both USE_SOCKETS and USE_V4_PKTINFO as part of the
configuration step. The command line would be something like:
./configure --enable-use-sockets --enable-ipv4-pktinfo
Solaris 11 and ATF
We have reports that ATF 0.15 and 0.16 do not build on Solaris 11. The
following changes to the ATF source code appear to fix this issue:
diff -ru atf-0.15/atf-c/tp_test.c atf-0.15-patched/atf-c/tp_test.c
--- atf-0.15/atf-c/tp_test.c 2011-12-06 06:31:11.000000000 +0100
+++ atf-0.15-patched/atf-c/tp_test.c 2012-06-19 15:54:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
*/
#include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <atf-c.h>
diff -ru atf-0.15/atf-run/requirements.cpp atf-0.15-patched/atf-run/requirements.cpp
--- atf-0.15/atf-run/requirements.cpp 2012-01-13 20:44:25.000000000 +0100
+++ atf-0.15-patched/atf-run/requirements.cpp 2012-06-19 15:41:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
extern "C" {
#include <sys/param.h>
-#include <sys/sysctl.h>
+//#include <sys/sysctl.h>
}
#include <cerrno>
Other Solaris Items
One problem which has been observed and is not fixed in this
patchlevel has to do with using DLPI on Solaris machines. The symptom
of this problem is that the DHCP server never receives any requests.
This has been observed with Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 on Intel x86
systems, although it may occur with other systems as well. If you
encounter this symptom, and you are running the DHCP server on a
machine with a single broadcast network interface, you may wish to
edit the includes/site.h file and uncomment the #define USE_SOCKETS
line. Then type ``make clean; make''. As an alternative workaround,
it has been reported that running 'snoop' will cause the dhcp server
to start receiving packets. So the practice reported to us is to run
snoop at dhcpd startup time, with arguments to cause it to receive one
packet and exit.
snoop -c 1 udp port 67 > /dev/null &
The DHCP client on Solaris will only work with DLPI. If you run it
and it just keeps saying it's sending DHCPREQUEST packets, but never
gets a response, you may be having DLPI trouble as described above.
If so, we have no solution to offer at this time, aside from the above
workaround which should also work here. Also, because Solaris requires
you to "plumb" an interface before it can be detected by the DHCP client,
you must either specify the name(s) of the interface(s) you want to
configure on the command line, or must plumb the interfaces prior to
invoking the DHCP client. This can be done with ``ifconfig iface plumb'',
where iface is the name of the interface (e.g., ``ifconfig hme0 plumb'').
It should be noted that Solaris versions from 2.6 onward include a
DHCP client that you can run with ``/sbin/ifconfig iface dhcp start''
rather than using the ISC DHCP client, including DHCPv6. Consequently,
we don't believe there is a need for the client to run on Solaris, and
have not engineered the needed DHCPv6 modifications for the dhclient-script.
If you feel this is in error, or have a need, please contact us.
AIX
The AIX support uses the BSD socket API, which cannot differentiate on
which network interface a broadcast packet was received; thus the DHCP
server and relay will work only on a single interface. (They do work
on multi-interface machines if configured to listen on only one of the
interfaces.)
We have reports of Windows XP clients having difficulty retrieving
addresses from a server running on an AIX machine. This issue
was traced to the client requiring messages be sent to the all ones
broadcast address (255.255.255.255) while the AIX server was sending
to 192.168.0.255.
You may be able to solve this by including a relay between the client
and server with the relay configured to use a broadcast of all-ones.
A second option that worked for AIX 5.1 but doesn't seem to work for
AIX 5.3 was to:
create a host file entry for all-ones (255.255.255.255)
and then add a route:
route add -host all-ones -interface <local-ip-address>
The ISC DHCP distribution does not include a dhclient-script for AIX--
AIX comes with a DHCP client. Contribution of a working dhclient-script
for AIX would be welcome.
MacOS X
The MacOS X system uses a TCP/IP stack derived from FreeBSD with a
user-friendly interface named the System Configuration Framework.
As it includes a builtin DHCPv4 client (you are better just using that),
this text is only about the DHCPv6 client (``dhclient -6 ...''). The DNS
configuration (domain search list and name servers' addresses) is managed
by a System Configuration agent, not by /etc/resolv.conf (which is a link
to /var/run/resolv.conf, which itself only reflects the internal state;
the System Configuration framework's Dynamic Store).
This means that modifying resolv.conf directly doesn't have the
intended effect, instead the macos script sample creates its own
resolv.conf.dhclient6 in /var/run, and inserts the contents of this
file into the Dynamic Store.
When updating the address configuration the System Configuration
framework expects the prefix and a default router along with the
configured address. As this extra information is not available via
the DHCPv6 protocol the System Configuration framework isn't usable
for address configuration, instead ifconfig is used directly.
Note the Dynamic Store (from which /var/run/resolv.conf is built) is
recomputed from scratch when the current location/set is changed.
Running the dhclient-script reinstalls the resolv.conf.dhclient6
configuration.
ATF
......@@ -603,7 +364,7 @@ sponsors. ISC now also offers commercial quality support contracts for
ISC DHCP, more information about ISC Support Contracts can be found at
the following URL:
https://www.isc.org/services/support/
https://www.isc.org/support/
Please understand that we may not respond to support inquiries unless
you have a support contract. ISC will continue its practice of always
......@@ -623,8 +384,8 @@ the dhcp-users or dhcp-announce mailing lists.
WHERE TO SEND FEATURE REQUESTS: We like to hear your feedback. We may
not respond to it all the time, but we do read it. If ISC DHCP doesn't
work well for you, or you have an idea that would improve it for your
use, please send your suggestion to dhcp-suggest@isc.org. This is also
an excellent place to send patches that add new features.
use, please create an issue at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/dhcp/issues.
This is also an excellent place to send patches that add new features.
WHERE TO REPORT BUGS: If you want the act of sending in a bug report
to result in you getting help in the form of a fixed piece of
......@@ -632,9 +393,9 @@ software, you are asking for help. Your bug report is helpful to us,
but fundamentally you are making a support request, so please use the
addresses described in the previous paragraphs. If you are _sure_ that
your problem is a bug, and not user error, or if your bug report
includes a patch, you can send it to our ticketing system at
dhcp-bugs@isc.org. If you have not received a notice that the ticket
has been resolved, then we're still working on it.
includes a patch, you can submit it to our ticketing system at
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/dhcp/issues. If you have not received
a notice that the ticket has been resolved, then we're still working on it.
PLEASE DO NOT REPORT BUGS IN OLD SOFTWARE RELEASES! Fetch the latest
release and see if the bug is still in that version of the software,
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