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

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 05/27/2014 03:20 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Tollef Fog Heen<tfheen at err.no>  wrote:
>> >]] Lennart Poettering
>> >
>>> >>If we set up links (and especially, create them like
>>> >>we do for veth), then hel, yeah we should be prepared to make sure
>>> >>everybody gets an address on it.
>> >
>> >Should we also include BGP, OSPF, RIP, ISIS (and their IPv6 variants) to
>> >make sure it's possible to push routes?
> The sarcasm is not lost on me, but just for the record, I'd say those
> are out-of-scope.
>

I would beg the differ you will need this to be able to properly support 
containers, isolating them to their own vlans etc.

I would have gone the route of implementing this into a separated 
systemd network server ( optionally being hidden from the network itself 
for security reasons which is required ) and have networkd tightly 
integrated and communicate with that server but you seem to be wanting 
to integrate all of this into networkd which does not lessen the 
requirements just complicates configuring them a bit more.

JBG