Something is Fishy About My Network

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Thu Mar 5 20:13:10 UTC 2009


Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> I think you're overstating the complexity of this.  It shouldn't be that
>> hard for him to get it working with dnsmasq.  Also, what aspect of the
>> configuration do you think is deprecated?
> 
> The Linux DHCP server no longer has the right hooks to fix up BIN
> directly.

There is no single "Linux DHCP server".  ISC dhcpd (which I assume
you're referring to) is not the only thing that can provide DHCP.  As I
said, dnsmasq is a good solution here because it's a single program that
can provide integrated DHCP and DNS.

> It needs another tool to help out.

Right, so don't use dhcpd at all.

Matt Flaschen




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