ISC all the way here. (Using SmartOS and nexentastor) Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 9, 2014, at 1:03, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
