Volker A. Brandt wrote: >> I took a look at ISC DHCP last week and found it quite easy to use. I've >> set up AI configurations quite a few times, and everytime I do, I run >> into all kinds of problems with the Sun DHCP set up. > > Hmmm... what kind of problems are you seeing? While the Sun DHCP > server is not the world's most user-friendly program, it does what > it's supposed to do. >
I'm looking for some more detail on that, too. > A more interesting question would be the fate of Sun DHCP as a whole. > It has a number of shortcomings, most notably the lack of a more modern > data backend, e.g. LDAP or a local SQL database. > The API for data backends is published and available for anyone to write to [1]. At one time we had a prototype Oracle backend, but that never reached completion. I see little likelihood that Sun would spend resources to add backends at this time. Its overall fate is a topic for discussion in the networking community. But the installadm tools will need to support the Sun server in order to be used on Solaris 10 or any earlier releases we choose to support, and ISC will be required to support Linux servers, so we'll be somewhat agnostic on this point, anyway. [1] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-6829?l=en Dave
