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diff --git a/contrib/isc-dhcp/RELNOTES b/contrib/isc-dhcp/RELNOTES index 0a517d6c149f..477f89778f8b 100644 --- a/contrib/isc-dhcp/RELNOTES +++ b/contrib/isc-dhcp/RELNOTES @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Internet Software Consortium Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Distribution - Version 2, Beta 1, Patchlevel 18 - March 5, 1998 + Version 2, Beta 1, Patchlevel 27 + April 23, 1999 Release Notes @@ -53,6 +53,138 @@ running in producion at the ISC, but is not expected to be stable in the near future, and is intended for sites that are in a position to experiment, or for sites that desperately need the new features. + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 26 + +- Fix UDP/IP checksum code + +- Fix UDP payload length computation to prevent logging of spurious + errors. + +- Support compilation on MacOS X + +- Add support for some options that were added in RFC2132. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 25 + +- Use the udp header's length rather than computing the length based + on the number of bytes received, because some broken relay agents + send packets with ip lengths that are longer than then sum of the ip + header size and the udp length. + +- Do path keyword substitution on unformatted manual pages before + installing them. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 24 + +- D'oh! Fix a really stupid mistake in hash.c. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 23 + +- Support an always-reply-rfc1048 flag, which says to reply with an + RFC1048-style vendor extensions buffer even if the client didn't + send an RFC1048-style magic number. + +- Fix a null pointer dereference. + +- Use netmask from subnet if no netmask option specified. + +- IRIX support (thanks to Don Badrak). + +- Install unformatted manual pages on Linux. + +- Add note in README about zcat vs. gzcat on BSD/os. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 22 + +- Test for lease before dereferencing it in dhcprequest. + +- Free the client parameter request list in dhcpnak if there is one. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 21 + +- Fix a pasto in options.c that will cause a core dump whenever a + client sends in a request without a parameter request list. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 20 + +- Actually do the client fix mentioned below - Patchlevel 20 only contained + half of the fix. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 19 + +- Removed arp table clearing code from solaris client script. + +- Document Linux "protocol not configured" error more thoroughly. + +- Clean up some unused variables. + +- Add entry and exit hooks to all dhcp client scripts, along with a + make_resolv_conf function that can be redefined in the entry hooks. + Document this new feature set. + +- Fix client to take advantage of network APIs that allow it to + receive a unicast instead of requesting that the DHCP server + broadcast its response. + +- Add -pf flag to all daemons allowing user to specify PID file name + on command line. + +- Undo a previous change that attempted to be clever about testing + interface flags but wound up being stupid instead. + +- Enforce access control on DHCPREQUEST messages as well as + DHCPDISCOVER messages. + + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 18 + +- Support added for AIX 4.1.5.0 (and hopefully other versions). + +- Use /var/run instead of /etc on Digital Unix. + +- Change DHCP client exponential backoff code to back off more slowly, + so that it is more robust in lossy environments, at the expense of + being a bit less polite to the server. + +- Don't request a specific lease interval in the client unless the + user says to do so. + +- Don't print DHCPXXX in wrong xxx messages unless DEBUG is defined. + +- Fix handling of secs field. + +- Fix handling of append statement. + +- Fix documentation for append and prepend statements. + +- Fix server support for parameter request list and maximum message + size. + +- Parameterize more hardware types in discover_interfaces. Check for + IFF_BROADCAST instead of !IFF_POINTOPOINT + +- Print kernel configuration warning message if we get EINVAL when + opening or configuring the Linux packet filter. + +- Fix a bug in UDP checksum code (thanks to John Nemeth for figuring + this out) and re-enable UDP checksumming. This allows the client + to work with some buggy DHCP servers that can't handle zero + checksums in the UDP header - in particular, the one John's cable + modem ISP is using. + +- Don't report packet header checksum errors unless we see a lot of + them. It's perfectly normal for some number of checksum errors to + occur. + +- Refer to the dhcpd.leases man page when printing an error message + prior to exiting because there's no lease database. + +- Add information to the README telling the reader how to get to the + manual pages. + +- Fix the server packet transmission code to unicast when it can. + +- Fix a typo in the dhcpd.conf manual page. + CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 BETA 1 PATCHLEVEL 17 - Fix a bug in the relay agent where messages to the client would be |