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 robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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