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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 27.05.14 14:28, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> 2014-05-27 14:00 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> >
> > In many ways, if people complain about a dhcp server in networkd, then
> > it's like complaining about the fact that pppd also can assign addresses
> > to the other side...
> 
> I don't see pppd implementing a DHCP server.

Of course, that's what they do. They call it differently though
"ipcp-accept-remote" and stuff. Pretty much the same stuff: it
configures pppd to not use static IP address configuration, but dynamic
one, assigned by the peer, much like dhcp works.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat