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Re: Would it not be better to use dnsmasq rathern than udhcpd?



On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 16:57 +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> This question really raises two questions.
> 
> dnsmasq is a useful little utility, rather as busybox is useful, in that is 
> contains lots of functions in one (relatively) small package.  It might be
> worth considering using it rather than udhcpd.  In particular it is also
> a dnsproxy.

Cross build and you can use it. To replace udhcpd, copy the suite
script, drop the package and replace what you want then specify that
suite script in packages.conf.

> 
> The second question concerns the way in which a machine (or variant)  tailors
> the list of packages to be included.  In particular OpenWrt has the notion
> that you can both add and subtract packages from the base list.  Thus in this
> case packages.conf would contain (assuming basefiles was as currently setup)
> 
> INCLUDE=-udhcpd,dnsmasq
> 
> which would have the effect of removing udhcpd from the list, and adding 
> dnsmasq.  An alternative would to introduce an EXCLUDE= line.

Yes, I'll look at implementing that.

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