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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 |
