Greg Potts wrote: >> Allen Wittenauer wrote: ... >>> As a sidenote, while the Solaris DHCP server >> back-end is supposed to >>> be pluggable, example code was (and probably still >> is) non-existent >>> unless you grovel through the (Open)Solaris >> codebase. When I last >>> asked Dave Miner about it a few years ago, he said >> he didn't know of >>> anyone that actually implemented one either.... >>> >> The Netra HA suite actually does, though I may not have known it at >> the time you asked (which I don't recall, to be honest ;-) >> >> I'm pretty sure, though, that I would have pointed anyone who asked >> at the DHCP Service Developer's Guide on docs.sun.com, which does >> have some rudimentary examples and a pointer to download the ASCII >> files code (a setup which is somewhat obsolete now that we've got >> OpenSolaris). >> >> Dave _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > The point is what's the point of an API that very few are willing to > use. Even with Sun's own attempts to market added value to the > existing net installation framework (namely N1OSP) they choose ISC > over the in house implementation, stating that there where > insurmountable issue that required ISC. >
It's not an API that I would have expected to have a lot of use - maybe an implementation of LDAP as the store, or an ODBC database. Beyond that there weren't a lot of other reasons why it would have been necessary. As I recall with N1, that product had been mostly developed outside Sun on ISC prior to us acquiring it, so I wouldn't read too much into what it supported. The main issue they had with moving onto the Solaris server was support for multiple network prefixes on the same physical link, which is a surmountable problem were someone willing to invest in solving it. It's never been high enough on the networking priority list to get Sun engineers to work on. Overall, I don't really care which way we go forward, but from a Solaris product support perspective there needs to be a transition plan, and that's where previous Sun-internal initiatives have petered out. Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
