[systemd-devel] [PATCH 17/17] networkd: add dhcp server support

[Michael Biebl]

2014-05-27 4:38 GMT+02:00 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> When enabled in [Network] it will set up a dhcp server on the interface, listening
>> on one of its statically configured IPv4 addresses and with a fixed size pool of
>> leases determined from it.
> Hi Tom,
> before looking at the code, a couple of general questions:
> - does the DHCP server have to be part of networkd? Isn't the job
>   of acquiring addresses and giving out addresses separate and shouldn't
>   two different processes be responsible?

I have to agree with Zbigniew here. This looks like feature creep.

Also, IIRC, the scope of networkd was to establish network connections
in a minimal environment, like an initramfs.
I'm pretty sure we don't need a DHCP server in a initramfs...

Cheers,
Michael


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