Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - The configuration is so cryptic that I failed a fifth
> > time to understand it and it was another time that I
> > compiled and configured ISC dhcpd instead and configured
> > it within 2 minutes without even reading the man pages.
> >
>
> Sorry that it seems so difficult for you - many customers seem to work
> with it pretty easily, and find the tools to be helpful. Each style of
> configuration has its strengths and weaknesses, to be sure.
Well, the problem I see is that I am unable to find the keywords that are needed
to run a dhcp server anywhere in the documentation.
How do I add a MAC address for PXE boot?
How do I configure fixed IP addresses for specific MAC addresses?
Ho do I configure a range of IP addresses within a subnet to use foe DHCP?
How do I add a #150 tag for the grub menu.lst file name?
Instead there are other crypting things in the config that I don't understand.
> > Well, I need to replace in.dhcpd from Sun by a working program which could
> > be
> > ISC dhcpd. Unfortunately Sun's "add_install_client" and similar scripts
> > depend on Sun dhcpd....well, I could argue that "add_install_client" does
> > not
> > work correctly for x86 systems and needs to be fixed anyway.
> >
>
> Well, we try to present an integrated experience among the pieces of the
> system that we ship. In the recent past we've talked about abstracting
> that interface such that it would be easy to plug in configuration of
> other DHCP servers. Unfortunately, that's a little harder when, like
> ISC, they don't provide any script or programmatic configuration
> interfaces. But I'm sure we'd react positively to contributed changes
> that moved us in that direction.
OK, I understand that it may have advantages to have a configure program
for DHCP that is able to maintain a group of properties without the need
to edit /etc/dhcpd.conf and look for the right place. But this only makes
sense in case the configure program does what people expect from it...
Jörg
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