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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:29:13 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   DHCP in the base
Message-ID:  <35FF68C9.6DB96A43@dal.net>
References:  <199809160708.AAA00576@word.smith.net.au>

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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > We should also have a dhcp server (isc-dhcp?) after 3.0 is done IMHO.
> > > I'll do it if nobody has any objections.
> >
> >       Mike Smith had this all ready to go (contribified, etc.) back in April,
> > not sure what happened. I offered at the time to assist with that
> > effort, offer's still good. I have a page which describes how I
> > integrated DHCP into my system, http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html
> > if you're interested. :)
> 
> Someone made noise about how there was a new version due out "Real Soon
> Now", 

	Someone == me. Ted Lemon (the ISC DHCP maintainer) did release what
turned out to be several new patch levels in a row to correct some
compile problems on various platforms. The current version is in our
ports system now, and has been stable. 

> and at about the same time it became clear that DHCP was going to
> take more integrating to make it work with our current /etc/rc* setup,
> so I put it down and went on to other stuff.  

	I think I have the gist of the conversation saved. As I recall the
consensus was to go with a system like named with dhcp_enable,
dhcp_program and dhcp_flags in rc.conf. We should probably have both
dhcp_client and dhcp_server. Some confusion seemed to result regarding
how to deal with bootp. 

> If you reckon your config is the hottest stuff out, 

	Heh... well it works, and I've had very favorable feedback on it. 

> then we ought to look hard at it - we would
> benefit immensely from someone that "owned" our DHCP issues.

	I'm certainly willing to help, whether I'm qualified to own anything or
not is up to others. :)  I'm fairly up to date on issues involving the
client, somewhat less familiar with the dhcp server.

Doug
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