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dhclient - Provides the dhclient ISC DHCP client daemon and dhclient-script.

Website: http://isc.org/products/DHCP/
License: distributable
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows
individual devices on an IP network to get their own network
configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address,
etc.) from a DHCP server. The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it
easier to administer a large network.

To use DHCP on your network, install a DHCP service (or relay agent),
and on clients run a DHCP client daemon.  The dhclient package
provides the ISC DHCP client daemon.

Packages

dhclient-3.0.5-31.el5_8.1.x86_64 [286 KiB] Changelog by Jiri Popelka (2012-07-26):
- An error in the handling of malformed client identifiers can
  cause a denial-of-service condition in affected servers. (CVE-2012-3571, #843124)

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