> 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.
I think it is fair to say that "scale really well" is fairly subjective. By default, the Solaris' "Enterprise DHCP" mode essentially means sharing the ASCII tables over NFS with other servers. If you want to do something fancy involving MAC addresses and you have a large network, using this sort of setup is fairly painful. [If you go the forwarding route, it makes setting up boot servers a major pain. If you go to distributed servers, it also means you need to distribute your DHCP macros, which leads to a host of other problems. As a sidenote, while the Solaris DHCP server back-end is supposed to be pluggable, example code was (and probably still is) non-existent unless you grovel through the (Open)Solaris codebase. When I last asked Dave Miner about it a few years ago, he said he didn't know of anyone that actually implemented one either.... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
