Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:40:35 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources Message-ID: <200006300840.JAA02311@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> of "Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:01:25 PDT." <20000629100125.E33366@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:33:46AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > It has been my intention of axing out bootpd (making it a port).
> > > [w/o replacing it with dhcpd]
> >
> > I'm not trying to stir anything, but what's the difference between
> > this and csh ?
>
> 1. Everyone uses /bin/csh (show me a box that has never had root login at
> least once.
Not true - I (and I would guess some others) always change root's shell
to /bin/sh. I've never liked csh. But that's irrelevant. My point
is that csh was upgraded to tcsh because csh was an old crufty
version that had no bells/whistles/functionality/usable history and
all the rest of that good stuff.
> 2. BSD tradition is to have /bin/csh. BSD tradition is not to have
> dhcpd. The config files are different, so dhcpd is not a direct
> drop-in replacement of bootpd.
BSD supplies the functionality. That functionality should be up to
date. I would guess that the ratio of bootp users against dhcp users
is rather low.
I believe the issue is ``bootpd must be nuked, should dhcpd be
imported ?''.
> > dhcpd is the currently maintained, good copyright version of bootpd.
>
> Only version 2, which is in security bug fix mode only.
*shrug* Still better than bootp :-I
> --
> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
--
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