Hi All,

I've made available a preview of ISC DHCP v3.05 for OS/2 & eComStation at 
http://download.smedley.info/dhcp-3.0.5-os2-preview1.zip

ISC's Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Distribution provides a freely 
redistributable reference implementation of all aspects of DHCP, through a 
suite of DHCP tools:

     * A DHCP server
     * A DHCP client
     * A DHCP relay agent

These tools all use a modular API which is designed to be sufficiently 
general that it can easily be made to work on POSIX-compliant operating 
systems and also non-POSIX systems like Windows NT and MacOS.

The DHCP server, client and relay agent are provided both as reference 
implementations of the protocol and as working, fully-featured sample 
implementations. Both the client and the server provide functionality that, 
while not strictly required by the protocol, is very useful in practice. 
The DHCP server also makes allowances for non-compliant clients which one 
might still like to support.

Current notes on the OS/2 build:
It is built with Innotek GCC 3.3.5 CSD1 and requires the libc061 runtime 
dll which is available from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip

**This has only had very limited testing so all feedback to 
paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.info is appreciated**

To use the client, start dhclient.exe with parameters like the following:
  ifconfig lan0 10.1.1.1 netmask 8.0.0.0
  ifconfig lan0 alias 10.1.1.1 netmask 8.0.0.0
  @dhclient -sf dhconf.cmd -e ETC=C:\MPTN\ETC lan0

dhconf.cmd is a rexx script that takes the parameters picked up by 
dhclient.exe and uses them to set the IP address and default routes.

Note that none of the tools have (yet) been educated to look in %etc% for 
configuration files, so dhcpd.exe needs to be expicitly told where its 
configuration files are, ie:
dhcpd.exe -f -d -cf dhcpd.conf -lf lease.f lan1

dhcpd currently gives some warnings about a lease file rename failing - 
these are under investigation.

Many thanks to Crazybonz for doing the initial port of DHCP v3.0.1, and to 
Yoda for encouraging me to do the dhcpd port and for testing!

Cheers,

Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
2nd January, 2007.