USING THE DHCP MANAGER
With Solaris 8, Sun Microsystems has provided a graphical user interface (GUI) to help configure a DHCP server. The /usr/sadm/admin/bin/dhcpmgr is a graphical utility to configure DHCP server and is called the DHCP Manager. You must be root to use this program.
As you can see from Figure 4, the DHCP service can be configured as a pure DHCP server or as a DHCP/BOOTP relay agent. If you configure it as a relay, the service acts on behalf of some other DHCP server. It receives requests from clients and forwards these requests to one of the configured remote DHCP servers. Table 11 shows the messages exchanged between DHCP clients and servers.
Figure 4. DHCP server configuration.
Using dhcpconfig to Configure DHCP
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