Both a DHCP server and DHCP clients are available for SUSE LINUX. The DHCP
server available is dhcpd (published by the
Internet Software Consortium). On the client side, choose between
two different DHCP client programs: dhclient
(also from ISC) and the DHCP client daemon in the dhcpcd
package.
SUSE LINUX installs dhcpcd by default. The
program is very easy to handle and is launched automatically on each
system boot to watch for a DHCP server. It does not need a configuration
file to do its job and works out of the box in most standard setups.
For more complex situations, use the ISC
dhclient, which is controlled by means of the
configuration file /etc/dhclient.conf
.