Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 8/10/07, David Pickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After struggling with some issues recently around the current DHCP server >> daemon, I am opening a discussion thread to garner support to replace the >> current DHCP server daemon in Solaris. >> >> Specifically, I proposed that the current daemon be replaced with ISC's >> implementation of the DHCP server. I've outlined the reasons after my >> signature. >> >> Please post your comments and suggestions. If you would, please indicate >> your support for this initiative by including "YES" in the Subject line or >> within the first couple of lines of your posting. > > YES - this is likely worth doing. A few thoughts in no particular order... > > - Perhaps delivering the industry standard DHCP server is part of Indiana.
Indiana would make for a convenient supported release vehicle, anyway. > - I would highly suggest that the timeline on this line up nicely with > any installation updates that will touch the way that DHCP is managed > so that people only need to re-learn once. Requiring that level of alignment seems unnecessary. Whatever we do in regard to network installation setup and support will be a lot less manual than the current erector-set model, and will be structured to deal with either one since Solaris 10 as a server will be a fact of life for the rest of my career, probably ;-) > - Maintaining dhtadm and pntadm for those that have automation that > depends on them is important. Perhaps, that needs investigation both in importance and in how well it can be accomplished. > - I worry much less about dhcpmgr - there are quite likely other GUIs > available that would be seen as a great improvement. > I'd be interested in examples of such. There weren't any that seemed to be 4 years ago. > FWIW, I'm pretty sure that Sun's N1 SPS uses ISC dhcpd as well. > Yes, it does. Dave _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
