How To Install dhcp-forwarder on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-forwarder in Fedora 36. dhcp-forwarder is DHCP relay agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-forwarder on Fedora 36.

What is `dhcp-forwarder`

dhcp-fwd forwards DHCP messages between subnets with different sublayer broadcast domains. It is similar to the DHCP relay agent dhcrelay of ISC’s DHCP, but has the following important features * Runs as non-root in a chroot-environment * Uses AF_INET sockets which makes it possible to filter incoming messages with packetfilters * The DHCP agent IDs can be defined freely * Has a small memory footprint when using dietlibc

We can use yum or dnf to install dhcp-forwarder on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dhcp-forwarder.

Install dhcp-forwarder on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dhcp-forwarder using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dhcp-forwarder

Install dhcp-forwarder on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dhcp-forwarder using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dhcp-forwarder

How To Uninstall dhcp-forwarder on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the dhcp-forwarder package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dhcp-forwarder

dhcp-forwarder Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/dhcp-fwd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/87d7936c5a7376a08aa7b6d4493f17caaf4984
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcp-forwarder.service
/usr/sbin/dhcp-fwd
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-forwarder
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-forwarder/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-forwarder/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-forwarder/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-forwarder/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-forwarder/README
/usr/share/man/man1/dhcp-fwd.1.gz
/var/lib/dhcp-fwd

References

dhcp-forwarder website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-forwarder on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).