[ros-dev] RE: ncpa

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Murphy, Ged (Bolton)
> 
> Do you know how much work would be involved in moving our 
> DHCP client into dhcpcsvc and implementing everything around this?
> If it's quite a lot of work it might be worth me trying out 
> what I mentioned, just has a hack until we have time to do 
> things the Windows way.

It's probably mostly a matter of moving some source files around. While
thinking about it, it occurred to me that your solution (just shut down the
DHCP client when switching to a static IP address) isn't going to work when
you have multiple network cards.

> If your ReactOS work is going to concentrate solely on the 
> kernel now, we might be waiting a long time to get this 
> implemented as nobody seems to want to pick ncpa up. It's 
> become the ReactOS forbidden fruit ;)
> 
> Any method would be good at this stage to get ncpa working, 
> as it's our only missing feature for the 0.3 release.

I hope I didn't give the impression "please implement it this way, otherwise
don't touch it". You're rightfully assuming that I won't be working on ncpa
anytime soon. So, I have no "rights" to it. I was just thinking out loud how
I'd want to implement it, but hey, if you think a different method works
better please go ahead.

GvG