James Carlson wrote: > 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? >
I had a similar experience to Jim. I'd never futzed with Sun's DHCP server before, and we set it up for PXE booting the opensolaris.org infrastructure (to net install all our machines), and I thought it was pretty straightforward.. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
