Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-13 Thread Brandorr
On 8/13/07, Dave Pickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The question now becomes how much effort and money should be expended to > catch-up or leap over, or is it better to simply adopt the ISC daemon > and contribute to *the* community around it? If the question is throw a ton of resources at Su

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-13 Thread Dave Pickens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The Solaris DHCP is older code and not actively updated -- no one >> wants to accept responsibility w ithin Sun for the maintenance, >> updating of the code since it's not new and exciting. Realistically it >> needs a re-write and re-architecture. > > >> Much of it h

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-13 Thread Stephen Lau
James Carlson wrote: > UNIX admin writes: >> What I will write is that I've done Solaris for a while, and I've read Sun's >> DHCP documentation, I've tried to implement a DHCP server (admittedly, only >> twice), and, simply put, I still neither understand what I was doing, nor >> did I manage to

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-13 Thread Casper . Dik
> >The Solaris DHCP is older code and not actively updated -- no one >wants to accept responsibility w ithin Sun for the maintenance, >updating of the code since it's not new and exciting. Realistically it >needs a re-write and re-architecture. >Much of it hasn't changed since Dave Miner rewrote

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-10 Thread James Carlson
UNIX admin writes: > What I will write is that I've done Solaris for a while, and I've read Sun's > DHCP documentation, I've tried to implement a DHCP server (admittedly, only > twice), and, simply put, I still neither understand what I was doing, nor did > I manage to get a grasp on the DHCP se

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-10 Thread Brandorr
On 8/10/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After struggling with some issues recently around the > > current DHCP server daemon, I am opening a discussion > > thread to garner support to replace the current DHCP > > server daemon in Solaris. > > I won't quote the rest of the reasons yo

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-10 Thread UNIX admin
> After struggling with some issues recently around the > current DHCP server daemon, I am opening a discussion > thread to garner support to replace the current DHCP > server daemon in Solaris. I won't quote the rest of the reasons you stated, I believe those are real issues and trust that you h

[osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP server daemon with ISC's

2007-08-10 Thread David Pickens
After struggling with some issues recently around the current DHCP server daemon, I am opening a discussion thread to garner support to replace the current DHCP server daemon in Solaris. Specifically, I proposed that the current daemon be replaced with ISC's implementation of the DHCP server. I