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

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

>>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

To be honest I don't known, I'll try to play with cpan sample today.
I'll also try to read the dhcp rfc to see what are the differents fields in dhcp packet response.



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De: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar at proxmox.com> 
À: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar at proxmox.com>, "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier at odiso.com> 
Cc: pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com 
Envoyé: Mercredi 22 Mai 2013 08:43:54 
Objet: RE: [pve-devel] implementation of a dhcp service in proxmox ? 



> -----Original Message----- 
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> 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