[kea-dev] I'd appreciate some feedback on trac ticket 3963 :)

[Angelo Failla]

On August 4, 2015 at 4:15:27 PM, Marcin Siodelski wrote:
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> On 04.08.2015 15:09, Angelo Failla wrote:
> >
> > On August 4, 2015 at 1:37:34 PM, Marcin Siodelski wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> It seems to me that the proper way forward would be to implement more
> >> generic stateless DHCPv4. That is a configuration switch which puts the
> >> server into the stateless mode. In such mode the server would skip
> >> attempts to allocate a lease for a client and always set the yiaddr to
> >> 0. The server would always respond with DHCPOFFER for DHCPDISCOVER and
> >> DHCPACK for DHCPREQUEST. The default for this mode would be 'disabled'.
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > That would work for us. Can you guys create a ticket for this and add it
> > in to your roadmap? If you accept contributions I'm happy to work on a
> > patch for this.
> >
> > You can drop the PR on github and close #3963 if you wish to do so.
> >
> > --
> > Angelo Failla - Cluster Infrastructure Dublin
> > pallotron at fb.com
> >
>  
> I closed the previous ticket and opened the #3964 for the 'stateless
> server implementation'.
>  
> We do love contributions! Thanks for proposing. We already have tight
> schedule for the 1.0 release, so accepting your contribution rather than
> implementing ourselves looks like a viable way to go. But, please allow
> time until tomorrow, as we have a team call tomorrow and it will be a
> good opportunity for us to discuss internally a strategy for this.

sure, just reply here when you finished discussing a strategy, create a
ticket and I will work on it. :-)

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