UNIX admin writes:
> What I will write is that I've done Solaris for a while, and I've read Sun's 
> DHCP documentation, I've tried to implement a DHCP server (admittedly, only 
> twice), and, simply put, I still neither understand what I was doing, nor did 
> I manage to get a grasp on the DHCP server in Solaris.
> 
> While I maintain that, given enough time to experiment and troubleshoot I'd 
> probably manage to figure it out, it's simple:
> 
> Sun DHCP server implementation is extremely difficult to understand. At least 
> for me. I'm confused by it. I'm lost in it.

Interesting.  When I had to set up a DHCP server at home, I hadn't
tried using Sun's DHCP server seriously before.

I ran dhcpmgr(1M), and it walked me through the process.  It was
relatively painless to answer the questions it had, and took all of a
few minutes to get running.

I agree that it's possible to get lost in the complexity, if you're
interested in doing so, but I'm surprised that getting started with a
basic service is hard.

Why were our experiences so different?

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