[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The Solaris DHCP is older code and not actively updated -- no one >> wants to accept responsibility w ithin Sun for the maintenance, >> updating of the code since it's not new and exciting. Realistically it >> needs a re-write and re-architecture. > > >> Much of it hasn't changed since Dave Miner rewrote the code for the initial >> release of Solaris 9 (or earlier). > > Quite a bit was invested in making the DHCP server scale really well > in large environments; the ISC server we're told does not scale > as well. > > The GUI makes setting it up really easy and quick too. > > Certainly arguments like "more modern" and "scales better" or not > to be believed without measurements. I have seen none.
I'll agree that there is no empirical data for the scalability other than several customers of mine running both side by side in their environments with 100,000 IP address, around 3000 subnets. They see less errors, better response time and have fewer problems with ISC's daemon than with the current DHCP daemon in Solaris. I doubt we could even produce the necessary resources to do a thorough level of testing, let alone any of the improvements required to update the daemon. Though I think some small level of effort could be done. Testing ranges from the more robust testing suites such as Ixia http://www.ixiacom.com/library/test_plans/display?skey=dhcp#1 to the smaller testing programs like Sustainable Softworks http://sustworks.com/site/prod_ipmx_overview.html Or we can go to the extreme of having the Tolly Group really put them through the wringer. (http://www.tollygroup.com) More modern point can easily be supported via the fact that ISC has a version that supports the IETF DHCP Failover standard (draft) along with MAC address affinity, etc. Simply put, more work has been done on ISC's DHCP daemon in the past 6 years than on the the current Solaris DHCP daemon. This is a game of leap frog just like every other bit of technology. In the past 6 years, ISC has leaped frogged over the current Solaris DHCP daemon. The question now becomes how much effort and money should be expended to catch-up or leap over, or is it better to simply adopt the ISC daemon and contribute to *the* community around it? Dave > > Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
