From: Ted Lemon Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 01:18:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a note about the DLPI problem on Solaris. X-Git-Tag: V2-BETA-1-PATCH-7~34 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54372da7c43a00b9b6d66fd887f750518f0c080c;p=thirdparty%2Fdhcp.git Add a note about the DLPI problem on Solaris. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 47e5413c7..5b00a7574 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Internet Software Consortium Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Distribution - Version 2, Beta 1, Patchlevel 0 + Version 2, Beta 1, Patchlevel 6 December 6, 1997 This is the first Beta release of Version 2 of the Internet Software @@ -208,6 +208,17 @@ 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 + +One problem which has been observed and is not fixed in this patchlevel +has to do with using DLPI on Solaris 2.6 machines, probably only on Intel, +but possibly also on SPARC. The symptom of this problem is that you never +receive any DHCP packets. If you are running Solaris 2.6, and 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''. + SUPPORT The Internet Software Consortium DHCP server is not a commercial