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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" dhclient-script.8
.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2004 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2005 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
.\" Copyright (c) 1996-2003 by Internet Software Consortium
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" see ``http://www.vix.com''. To learn more about Nominum, Inc., see
.\" ``http://www.nominum.com''.
.\"
-.\" $Id: dhclient-script.8,v 1.10 2005/03/17 20:14:55 dhankins Exp $
+.\" $Id: dhclient-script.8,v 1.11 2006/02/24 23:16:27 dhankins Exp $
.\"
.TH dhclient-script 8
.SH NAME
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ defines a set of variables in the environment, and then invokes
.B CLIENTBINDIR/dhclient-script.
In all cases, $reason is set to the name of the reason why the script
has been invoked. The following reasons are currently defined:
-MEDIUM, PREINIT, BOUND, RENEW, REBIND, REBOOT, EXPIRE, FAIL and TIMEOUT.
+MEDIUM, PREINIT, BOUND, RENEW, REBIND, REBOOT, EXPIRE, FAIL, STOP, RELEASE,
+NBI and TIMEOUT.
.PP
.SH MEDIUM
The DHCP client is requesting that an interface's media type
@@ -175,6 +176,18 @@ The DHCP client has been unable to contact any DHCP servers, and any
leases that have been tested have not proved to be valid. The
parameters from the last lease tested should be deconfigured. This
can be handled in the same way as EXPIRE.
+.SH STOP
+The dhclient has been informed to shut down gracefully, the
+dhclient-script should unconfigure or shutdown the interface as
+appropriate.
+.SH RELEASE
+The dhclient has been executed using the -r flag, indicating that the
+administrator wishes it to release its lease(s). dhclient-script should
+unconfigure or shutdown the interface.
+.SH NBI
+No-Broadcast-Interfaces...dhclient was unable to find any interfaces
+upon which it believed it should commence DHCP. What dhclient-script
+should do in this situation is entirely up to the implementor.
.SH TIMEOUT
The DHCP client has been unable to contact any DHCP servers.
However, an old lease has been identified, and its parameters have