ISC DHCP Futures

[David W. Hankins]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:45:44AM -0400, rsmith at osc.gov.on.ca wrote:
> I agree with Simon's comments. Though I have no experience with the DHCP 
> server, I have been following it for quite some time. The ISC version of 
> Bind has been an excellent product, which we have been using for years in 
> our Microsoft AD environment.
> Are you planning to make the new DHCP server available on the Windows 
> platform? A lot of us are not using the current version due to this 
> constraint.

There's a Crynwar build environment for ISC DHCP which I have never
made any use and can not speak for how useful it is.

At some point it would be nice for a native build of ISC DHCP similarly
to what we do for BIND: but we also have a lot of other work ahead of
us.  So this is far enough off in the future that I can't imagine when
we might reasonably start.

DHCP is also fairly harder to implement on multiple platforms than
BIND is...where BIND could simply use a standard UDP BSD socket, DHCP
has to perform all manner of tricks in order to conform to the letter
of RFC2131.

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