Evgeniy Sinev wrote:
Sounds interesting. We don't have any DHCP support yet. Most protocol
stack is built upon MINA (a network application framework). MINA currently
supports only NIO transport (which doesn't support multicast). You'll have
to implement BIO (old socket I/O) support for MINA and then build DHCP
protocol on top of MINA. Then integrating protocol with ApacheDS will be
great.
I want to realize not only DHCP protocol, but fully worked DHCP-server
for ApacheDS or for standalone use.
That's great Evgeniy. Why don't you start looking at the code that
already exists if you have not already. It's a good start. Feel free
to start contibuting patches for the code that is already there. Or
express your approach/plans for discussion on this list.
DHCP is very important. Also note that you can embed the ApacheDS core
with backing store without exposing any oither protocols even LDAP if
you like. So this scenario == standalone configuration of only a DHCP
server. You get a free backend and a frontend (almost) in MINA.
Thanks,
Alex
