* Hans Fugal [Tue, 5 Jul 2005 at 14:04 -0600] > > The VPN software does everything you would want DHCP to do. > *snip* > I think OpenVPN goes too far in DHCP-server emulation, but I admit it's > a hard line to draw. It is very nice that you don't have to set up a > DHCP server to do the basics (give me an IP address, set up routes and > nameservers). Unfortunately a side effect of this is that anytime > someone asks about using a DHCP server in an OpenVPN setup, people just > blast them with "why are you doing that, moron?" And, if you do buy into > it, you end up administering both a DHCP server and OpenVPN, and we all > know that repeating yourself is to be avoided wherever possible.
On that note, I _hate_ how openvpn will NEVER give you a consistent address, and the lack of a good way to discover the addresses of other peers makes things painful, which I believe is the main reason Hans has done DHCP over VPN. Von Fugal
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