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dhcp-agent
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This is a pre-release version of dhcp-agent.

dhcp-agent will be a complete DHCP client/server suite, with a
number of tools for network troubleshooting, and configuration. In
its current state a simple dhcp sniffer and an beta-quality dhcp
client have been implemented. 

The current implementation of the dhcp-server is just skeleton
code. Expect a complete server in the next month (hopefully).

Your help in building and testing this suite will be much
appreciated.

Please know that, only the desperate and depraved would run the
client on a production machine.

Read the INSTALL file for instructions on compiling and installing dhcp-agent.

The project's website is:

http://dhcp-agent.sf.net/

Supported Platforms
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dhcp-agent has been tested on:

GNU/Linux 2.4.x  (i386)
FreeBSD 4.x      (i386)
NetBSD-1.6.1     (i386)
Solaris 2.8      (SPARC)

Support
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Visit:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dhcp-agent-users

To subscribe to the dhcp-agent-users list.

Also:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dhcp-agent-announce

For announcements.

For filing a support request or bug report please consider
visiting dhcp-agent's page at sourceforge and using the
applicable forum:

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dhcp-agent/

Although I do try to reply to mails sent to me personaly, please
know that you are more likely to receive a response from others
on the list, or receive better support from the support forums. I
am slower than a greater collective of users.

In addition to this you can always check the ERRATA file which is
updated whenever bugs are fixed in between releases:

http://dhcp-agent.sf.net/ERRATA

The purpose of the ERRATA file is to cull down on release
inflation -- to prevent me from cutting a new release everytime a
bug is found -- while allowing you, the user, to get any quick
fixes, patches, and workarounds for known issues.

Documentation
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dhcp-agent ships with man pages, which contain some brief
reference documentation, and a texinfo manual. The texinfo manual
is installed in your systems info directory and can be read with
info readers such as "info" or "emacs."

See the INSTALL file to find which "configure" option you should
pass to convert the info manual into HTML if you prefer it in
that format.

In addition to that, if generating the HTML pages is too much
work for you, you can browse the manual for the very latest
release at:

http://dhcp-agent.sourceforge.net/manual/dhcp-agent_toc.html

About the license
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The license is adapted from the Berkeley Software Distribution
License. Please see the top level directory for the LICENSE file.

If you plan on using dhcp-agent in a project of yours or use the
code I would appreciate it if you dropped me a note. It may give me
a warm fuzzy feeling.

Contributing
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dhcp-agent is free software. If you find it useful consider
contributing back patches, comments, bug reports, or becoming
involved with its development.

-- 
Thamer Alharbash <[e-mail]>