Start the DHCP Service Daemon

This section describes three functions performed by the dhcpconfig script:

• Installs the start/stop script for the DHCP daemon processes into the /etc/init.d directory

• Sets up links to this script in the /etc/rc{0,3}.d directories

• Starts the daemon processes

The start/stop script is named dhcp and the links are S34dhcp (to start the daemons) and K34dhcp (to stop the daemons). This follows standard SVR4 procedure for daemon process execution at boot time.

One daemon process, in.dhcpd, is started. The in.dhcpd daemon is the DHCP server process, which responds to the client DHCP requests and forwards the network configurations, which have been established in the dhcptab table.