9 августа 2014 г. 7:03:21 CEST, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss <[email protected]> пишет: >This is a query to get a sense whether anyone runs the Sun dhcpd >(server >side, not client side) daemon on any illumos distributions. That is, >will >*anyone* miss it. (Note that I'm not terribly interested in hearing >from >people who are running this on *Solaris*, unless they have a near term >need >to move that to illumos.) > >Note also that in terms of serving DHCP, the ISC DHCP server is 100% >capable of doing everything that the Sun code can. What the >illumos/Sun >code offers that ISC doesn't is some Java based configuration GUI and >CLI >interfaces. > >The reason for wanting to ditch this code is that it creates a runtime >and >build time Java dependency (not the only one, I know), is a large and >complex code base, and is currently rotting in the tree; we don't think >anyone is using it, so it would be better to just yank it than to leave >it >sitting there rotting. > >Thanks. > > - Garrett > > > >------------------------------------------- >illumos-discuss >Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now >RSS Feed: >https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22642773-76f3f1fc >Modify Your Subscription: >https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
I've posted on this a couple of months back: IMHO the main benefit of SUNWdhcp* is in its CLI and to an extent GUI management interfaces, which allow to configure it on the fly with a programmatic API, such as used when configuring SunRay software (by its wizards), or with snippets I've posted on the wiki (to provision local zones with DHCP settings). I am not aware whether ISC dhcpd has (nor doesn't have) equivalent interfaces. Otherwise, even though there are reports of successful use of SunRays with illumos-based OSes, that technology (at least in its mature years) did not require anything magical and proprietary on the networking infrastructure side, so even Windows DHCP servers could be used, not to speak of ISC and its derivatives. They are just not conveniently integrated and may be somewhat less documented as to the steps needed for setup. Though for the most common purposes, a mixed setup with some basic info from DHCP, then some pointers in the default DNS zone searched by the terminal after bootup and DHCP or static net config, and finally downloadable config files or server logic for uber-customization, there's reallly little needed of DHCP in this area at all. While I'd lazily love to continue using SUNWdhcp, especially thanks to its easy configurability, and it is really curious why it broke down in recent illumoses (may be a symptom of some sinister regression not really related to dhcp per se?), I'd reluctantly agree to see it torched if that simplifies things for illumos core development. Aside from that, a pntadm/etc. remake for ISC might solve most end-user inconveniences (i.e. allow to still use SRSS fully). Jim Klimov -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Samsung Android ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
