Full data with DHCP server and BOOTP client

[Paul B. Henson]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:59:40PM -0800, Christoph Pleger wrote:

> By the way, does anybody know about a DHCP client program that simply
> retrieves information from the server and displays it (like bootpc
> does), but does not try to configure things like IP address etc. locally
> on the client machine and does not set itself to background?

dhcpcd (http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/) supports a test mode:

     -T, --test
             On receipt of DHCP messages just call
             /lib64/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks with the reason of TEST which
             echos the DHCP variables found in the message to the console.
             The interface configuration isn't touched and neither are any
             configuration files.  To test INFORM the interface needs to be
             configured with the desired address before starting dhcpcd.


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