[pve-devel] implementation of a dhcp service in proxmox ?

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Wed May 22 08:43:54 CEST 2013



> -----Original Message-----
> From: pve-devel-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-devel-
> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Dietmar Maurer
> Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2013 08:34
> To: Alexandre DERUMIER
> Cc: pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com
> Subject: Re: [pve-devel] implementation of a dhcp service in proxmox ?
> 
> > So dnsmasq simply allocated range, depend of the source ip which
> > receive the dhcp packets.
> >
> > So 1 dnsmasq daemon can do the job.
> > Maybe command line will be too long with a lot of ranges and ip.
> > Maybe can we generate the dnsmasq config file from proxmox
> > configuration files before reload the dnsmasq deamon ?
> 
> Besides, how will we handle leases on migration. When we implement our own
> dhcp server with perl we can store them on /etc/pve.
> 
> So maybe it is worth to evaluate Net::DHCP::Packet.

The example daemon you sent has about 1000LOC - do we need that
or would the simple version also work?

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DJZORT/Net-DHCP-0.693/examples/dhcpd.pl






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