From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Nov 26 19:49:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D665737B417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:49:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a075.otenet.gr [212.205.215.75]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fAR3ncC26835; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 05:49:38 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAR3nRM03034; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 05:49:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 05:49:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: setantae Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/32229: Omission from Handbook Chapter 17.8 (DHCP) Message-ID: <20011127034927.GA2663@hades.hell.gr> References: <200111261900.fAQJ03809531@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200111261900.fAQJ03809531@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001-11-26 11:00:03, setantae wrote: > > The server portion of the suite is not provided as part of > FreeBSD, and so you will need to install the net/isc-dhcp2 > port to provide this service. See for more is not really necessary, I think. > Also included with this reply is a length of time for which > this information can be used by that particular client. This is > known as a DHCP "lease" and a new lease must be acquired by the lease > configuration file, and rebuild the kernel. For more > information about building kernels, see linkend="kernelconfig">. again... > The bpf device is already > part of the GENERIC kernel that is > supplied with FreeBSD, so if you do not have a custom > kernel, you should not need to create one in order to get > DHCP working. I'd prefer this without the double negative. Something like: ...so, even if you are running the GENERIC kernel, you will not need to build a custom kernel to get DHCP working. > > For those who are particularly security conscious, > you should be warned that bpf "Those of you who are particularly security consious, should bear in mind that..." looks a bit better here. But this might be just me being wrong. > > option domain-name "example.com"; > option domain-name-servers 192.168.4.100; ... > } > I tend to prefer tags written with the first and last lines having no whitespace/newline characters, as in: Text here... more text end of text but this and other whitespace changes are easy to make before committing this. > > This option specifies a comma seperated list of DNS comma separated ? > > &prompt.root; /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd.sh start > The same as here. It's better when written as: command... Perhaps a paragraph needs to be added to note that the script should be made executable. I'm not sure if it will be made executable by the installation. Something similar to: The startup script for the DHCP daemon is installed by the net/isc-dhcp2 as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd.sh. If this script is executable, then the DHCP daemon will automatically be started at boot time. Use &man.chmod.1; to make it executable if it isn't. &prompt.root; chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd.sh > resides in /usr/local/sbin. The &man.dhcpd.8; My entities do not include a &man.dhcp.8; entry. Perhaps one should be added, even though this is a program installed from the ports? :-/ > another DHCP server on a separate network. The &man.dhcrelay.8; Similarly for this entity :-) I hope I'm not being too anal-retentive and this discourages you from submitting more stuff like this work. This looks absolutely marvellous already :-) Let's wait to see if anyone else has comments on this, for a while, and then I think it should be committed more or less verbatim. CVS makes changes very easy to do in the future anyways, if they're needed. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message