Re: removal of dhcp-beta?
On 17 Jun 1998 peloy@ven.ra.rockwell.com wrote:
> Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu> wrote:
>
> > AFAIK, dhcp-beta is the only version that can be used with multiple
> > subnets; if that's the case, taking it out makes the dist lose
> > functionality. (A real bummer if there are no problems with dhcp-beta
> > other than the name.)
>
> Oppsss!! I didn't know that. Then I agree the fact that the name
> contains the word "beta" is not a good reason to remove these packages
> from Hamm (dhcp-client-beta should be removed, though, as there is one
> package that provides this functionality and Cristoph Lameter -
> pervious maintainer - requested so in an important bug report he filed
> against dhcp-client-beta).
The code to do multiple interfaces in the normal dhcp is easy enough to
lift out, look for SO_BIND*. I agree that it is quite important to have a
dhcp server than can handle multiple interfacs.
Jason
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