--- client/dhclient.8.orig Sun Nov 17 03:25:43 2002 +++ client/dhclient.8 Wed Mar 3 02:06:52 2004 @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ .\" .\" from Id: dhclient.8,v 1.12.2.8 2004/06/10 17:59:12 dhankins Exp .\" +.\" Portions copyright (c) 2000 David E. O'Brien. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" .TH dhclient 8 .SH NAME dhclient - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Client @@ -28,12 +32,18 @@ .I port ] [ +.B -D +] +[ .B -d ] [ .B -q ] [ +.B -v +] +[ .B -1 ] [ @@ -64,6 +74,10 @@ relay ] [ +.B -i +interval +] +[ .B -n ] [ @@ -148,6 +162,15 @@ configuration file or on the command line, and will ignore all other interfaces. .PP +The +.B -D +flag causes +.B dhclient +to save the script it creates for use in conjunction with +.B dhclient-script +in +.IR /tmp. +.PP If the DHCP client should listen and transmit on a port other than the standard (port 68), the .B -p @@ -171,6 +194,12 @@ flag, followed by the IP address to send. This is only useful for testing, and should not be expected to work in any consistent or useful way. .PP +On FreeBSD, dhclient can be enabled to automatically handle the +link status of the network card. Normally polling is done every +five seconds. The polling interval can be set using the +.B -i +flag, followed by the numbers of seconds. Minimum is one second. +.PP The DHCP client will normally run in the foreground until it has configured an interface, and then will revert to running in the background. To run force dhclient to always run as a foreground @@ -188,6 +217,10 @@ .B -q flag prevents any messages other than errors from being printed to the standard error descriptor. +.B -v +flag turns on all messages. +Opposite of +.B -q . .PP The client normally doesn't release the current lease as it is not required by the DHCP protocol. Some cable ISPs require their clients