<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.57"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="DHCP mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="DHCP mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="DHCP protocol" HREF="x69.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >DHCP mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x69.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN17" >1. Introduction</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN19" >1.1. Standard Disclaimer</A ></H2 ><P >No liability for the contents of this documents can be accepted. Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk. As this is a new edition of this document, there may be errors and inaccuracies, that may of course be damaging to your system. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely, I don't take any responsibility for that.</P ><P >Also bear in mind that this is <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >NOT</I > official information. Much content in this document are assumptions, which appear to work for people. Use the information at your own risk.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN24" >1.2. New Versions of this Document</A ></H2 ><P >New versions of this document are available from</P ><P ><A HREF="http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/DHCP.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/DHCP.html</A ></P ><P >Following translations of the DHCP mini-HOWTO are available:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Chinese - <A HREF="http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/DHCP.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/DHCP.html</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >Japanese - <A HREF="http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/JFdocs/DHCP.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/JFdocs/DHCP.html</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >Spanish - <A HREF="ftp://cuates.pue.upaep.mx/pub/linux/LuCAS/DHCP-mini-Como/" TARGET="_top" >ftp://cuates.pue.upaep.mx/pub/linux/LuCAS/DHCP-mini-Como/</A ></P ></LI ></UL ><P >Permission is hereby granted to all individuals who want to translate the document into their own language. I would only ask that you provide a link back to this document and inform me of a URL to your translation so I can include a link to it.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN41" >1.3. Feedback</A ></H2 ><P >Feedback is most certaintly welcome for this document. Without your submissions and input, this document wouldn't exist. So, please post your additions, comments and criticisms to <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:vuksan-feedback@veus.hr" >vuksan-feedback@veus.hr</A >></TT >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN45" >1.4. Contributors</A ></H2 ><P >This document has been modified from the original version by Paul Makeev.</P ><P >The following people have contributed to this mini-HOWTO.</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Heiko Schlittermann</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Jonathan Smith</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Dan Khabaza</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Hal Sadofsky</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Henrik Stoerner</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Paul Rossington</P ></LI ><LI ><P >numerous others</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN64" >1.5. Copyright Information</A ></H2 ><P >This document is copyrighted (c) 1998 Vladimir Vuksan and distributed under the terms of the OpenContent License (OPL). Full text of the license can be found at</P ><P > <A HREF="http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml" TARGET="_top" >http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml</A ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x69.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DHCP mini-HOWTO</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >DHCP protocol</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >