Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:44:40 +0000 (GMT) From: "Geoff Rehmet" <geoffr@is.co.za> To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl) Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <19990209074440.15845.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <199902082319.PAA63547@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> from Steve Kargl at "Feb 8, 1999 3:19:12 pm"
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Steve Kargl writes : > > Content-Type: text/BLOAT > > These should be left has ports. > I can understand the people who need DHCP to get their systems up. OTOH, where does one draw the line. Is DHCP core functionality? Another issue to be taken into account: there is already a bootp daemon in the tree. Anyone putting any DHCP functionality in should look very seriously at any possibilities of combining the functionality, rather than creating what amounts to a degree of redundancy. (I haven't looked at DHCP-WIDE, and consequently, I don't know if it also supports bootp functionality.) I personally would prefer to see DHCP left a port. But, OTOH, more and more people are using dynamic IP address assignment on their networks. (Not an easy one.) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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