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This is actually fairly big news. This will impact many consumer routers/firewalls and some Wifi access points that are using ISC's DHCPD. They appear to sugg
by LinuxBender 4y ago
This is actually fairly big news. This will impact many consumer routers/firewalls and some Wifi access points that are using ISC's DHCPD. They appear to suggest an alternative that uses a RDBMS backend and implements API's. That will be an interesting migration for those that incorporate DHCP and DHCP network relays into Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Cobbler, etc... I've seen some fairly complex setups. I suppose that makes sense in a corporate/production environment but may be a bit overkill for small networks and network devices.
What alternatives [1] are others switching to? udhcpd? I believe some here already use dnsmasq. I want to say I've run into problems on some alternatives with some of the more obscure dhcp vendor options but it's been a while.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DHCP_server_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DHCP_server_soft...
- uselpa 4y agodnsmasq is great for reasonably small setups.
- allarm 4y agoWe’ve used it in quite large setups as well, works great. Though their documentation is far from ideal.
- apple4ever 4y agoI was wondering what others are going with too. Kea looks interesting, but haven't looked hard at anything after running ISC for years.
- tinus_hn 4y agoThe database server is optional, you can also use local csv files. A terrible format but it is just text.