[ros-dev] Annotations to dhcpd

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Eric,

--- Eric Kohl <eric.kohl at t-online.de> wrote:
> Why do we have to add these useless files, like shell scripts,
> makefile.am,
> makefile.in, etc. to the CVS tree if we want to make dhcpd a real
> service?
> The source code will loose its portability anyway. And why keep this
> rather
> complex directory structure for such a simple utility?

Your right I can correct this.

> Btw, the dhcp server looks like a hack to me. It is leaking lots of
> memory
> because there is not a single call to free() in the source and the
> dhcp
> options handling it pretty crude. And it doesn't seem to work with a
> Win2K
> client.

I tested with my IP phone and it seemed to work. Its possible my phone
fell back to cached address or something.

> I'd suggest to use the Moreton dhcp server (dhcp-win-0.8.25.tar)
> instead. It
> has got a much better internal structure and it works properly. I ran
> it on
> Win98SE and tested it with a Win2K client. The only disadvantage of
> the
> Moreton server is that it uses a binary config file.

Can you point me to the source code? I was not able to find it online.

Thanks
Steven



		
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