How To Install dhcp-relay on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-relay
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is dhcp-relay
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. This package provides the ISC DHCP relay agent.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dhcp-relay
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dhcp-relay.
Install dhcp-relay on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dhcp-relay
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dhcp-relay
Install dhcp-relay on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dhcp-relay
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dhcp-relay
How To Uninstall dhcp-relay on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the dhcp-relay
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dhcp-relay
dhcp-relay Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/647a7d76cb4480cd178677116ec588ca298d6e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcrelay.service
/usr/sbin/dhcrelay
/usr/share/man/man8/dhcrelay.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-relay
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.