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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:03:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000628170138.27122G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000628172512.B52859@cichlids.cichlids.com>

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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Alexander Langer wrote:

> Thus spake Glenn Johnson (gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov):
> 
> > Just my 2 cents here but isn't FreeBSD suppose to be a server OS? So
> > shouldn't a server OS have a DHCP server in the base system?
> 
> No, we don't have WWW and other common services in the base system,
> too.

But we do have a long obsolete bootpd (bootpd(8)), and the DHCP client and
server are shipped in the same build package by the same vendor (ISC)
under a BSD license.  We could easily remove the bootp support, gain the
DHCP support, resulting in newer and better written software (assertion)
without increase in bloat. :-) 

  Robert N M Watson 

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