From 7cae2da1c50c6680b92ca58eb03f9d59315010ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Zhukov 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