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I'm building network kickstart servers and I find myself in circumstances
where I don't really know what is going on with dhcp servers in my building.
Is there a dhcp server available? Is one being relayed onto the subnet of
interest? What is the address of the dhcp server? I've noticed that when I
run dhclient at the command line, it describes the conversation between it
and the dhcp server. However, it seems I can only run dhclient when I want
to configure an actual interface. Reading the dhclient man page, I thought
the -n option would give me what I want. But when I run "dhclient -n",
nothing seems to happen.
So my question is this. Is there a tool that will contact and negotiate with
a dhcp server, show me the conversation, but not affect any physical
interfaces?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I'm building network kickstart servers and I find
myself in circumstances where I don't really know what is going on with dhcp
servers in my building. Is there a dhcp server available? Is one being relayed
onto the subnet of interest? What is the address of the dhcp server? I've
noticed that when I run dhclient at the command line, it describes the
conversation between it and the dhcp server. However, it seems I can only run
dhclient
when I want to configure an actual interface. Reading the dhclient man page, I
thought the -n option would give me what I want. But when I run "dhclient
-n", nothing seems to happen.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So my question is this. Is there a tool that will contact
and negotiate with a dhcp server, show me the conversation, but not affect any
physical interfaces?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Andrew Robinson </span></font></p>
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