<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There are several possible mailing lists you could use depending on what you want to do.<div><br></div><div>This list is fine for talking about the coding aspects of a feature, dhcp-workers also might</div><div>be sufficient for that purpose.</div><div><br></div><div>The dhcp-users list would be better if you are trying to find other folks in the DHCP community</div><div>that are interested in this type of a feature. Potentially you could go there to gauge interest</div><div>and get support and then move to this list to do work.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally there is the dhcp-suggest list to put either an idea or a block of code into our ticket</div><div>mechanism for possible inclusion in a future release.</div><div><br></div><div>**</div><div><br></div><div>As we have a lot of work and limited resources two of the major questions we have for any</div><div>new functionality are how it will be used and what portion of the DHCP community might be</div><div>interested in using it. This helps us to prioritize our work in fixing bugs, adding features and</div><div>incorporating features from the community.</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>Shawn</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:31 AM, Gaston Gloesener wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hello,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Recently I was looking for some out-of-band DHCP (will explain that later) server functionality and could not find any solution. Then I looked into the ISC DHCP server code in order to modify the IPv6 part to allow this functionality.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">However analyzing he code as well as developing a proper solution for the suggestion it appeared that not only the IPV6 configuration part needs to be adapted (mainly the config parser) but also the core of the DHCP server which is why I would like to officially make my suggestion.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Of course I am going to detail this much more in a first step by providing the goal of the modification and in a second step the technical details. However at this time I want to make sure that this is the correct mailing list to do so as I could not find a dhcp-dev list.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">So, is this the correct mailing list ?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Gaston<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>dhcp-hackers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dhcp-hackers@lists.isc.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">dhcp-hackers@lists.isc.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-hackers" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-hackers</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>