dhcp/0026-Add-dhclient-5-B-option-description.patch

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From 7cae2da1c50c6680b92ca58eb03f9d59315010ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:28:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 26/26] Add dhclient(5) -B option description
Cc: pzhukov@redhat.com
Bug-Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1764088
---
client/dhclient.8 | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/client/dhclient.8 b/client/dhclient.8
index 0145b9f..b466ac7 100644
--- a/client/dhclient.8
+++ b/client/dhclient.8
@@ -552,6 +552,14 @@ Path to the network configuration script invoked by
when it gets a lease. If unspecified, the default
.B CLIENTBINDIR/dhclient-script
is used. See \fBdhclient-script(8)\fR for a description of this file.
+.TP
+.BI \-B
+statement instructs dhclient to always set the bootp broadcast flag in
+request packets, so that servers will always broadcast replies.
+This is equivalent to supplying the dhclient -B argument, and has
+the same effect as specifying 'always-broadcast' in the server's dhcpd.conf.
+This option is provided as an extension to enable dhclient to work
+on IBM s390 Linux guests.
.PP
.SH PORTS
During operations the client may use multiple UDP ports
--
2.14.5