On 2008-05-25 13:46, VOROSKOI Andras wrote: > Hi, > > I have continued Matthias' work > (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2008-03/msg00025.html) > on porting dhclient, dhcrelay and dhcpd. They build now, but i've only > tested dhclient. > > http://gitorious.org/projects/dfly-dhcp > > I'm aware of Chris' problem with it > (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2008-03/msg00029.html) > and I am willing to fix it later. > > But here comes my problem: Do we really want dhcrelay and dhcpd in the src > tree? > Well, dhclient is necessary for sure, but you can install dhcpd and > dhcrelay from the pkgsrc tree. Having those in out tree just makes the > tree bigger. Also pkgsrc reacts faster when security related issues > comes up and the user base is also bigger. > So if I should run a dhcpd server for some reason i would use the one in > pkgsrc. > > On the other hand dhcpd and dhcrealy from OpenBSD has nice privilege > separation which can be useful.
Might it be possible to have the best of two worlds and get the OpenBSD dhcpd and dhcrelay into pkgsrc? -- Erik Wikström
