Peter Memishian wrote: > > It'd certainly be possible to allow addresses to be managed by DHCP for > > non-global shared-stack zones, and there have been customers asking for > > it; it just hasn't been implemented. > > There are some notable difficulties -- e.g., since dhcpagent would need to > run in the global zone, dhcpinfo wouldn't work
The solution I had in mind for that was having zoneadmd copy out the DHCPACK into the zone's /etc/dhcp/$IF.dhc file, so that you could either run a dummy copy of dhcpagent in the zone (one that doesn't manage anything but does respond to queries), or just modify dhcpinfo to read from that file. > -- and moreover, the DHCP > model of serving as a database of DHCP-obtained network configuration > fights with the fact that the only thing that really has the ability to > act on that configuration is zoneadmd. > That's not true. A mere handful of parameters -- those related directly to interface configuration and the bogosity that is default route assignment -- are things that must be handled in the global zone. All of the rest are things (such as DNS server addresses) that can easily be handled from within the zone. (In fact, that really _should_ be handled there.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
