[pve-devel] [PATCH] memory form : hotplug improvements

[Dietmar Maurer]

> I was under the impression that a decision whether to develop one from
> scratch in Perl or to use dnsmasq, unbound etc. was not made yet so I
> stopped with the IPv4 implementation waiting for a decision. If the
> decision was dnsmasq, unbound etc. there was no idea going any further
> since this would just be a waist of time.
> 
> If an implementation in Perl is favored I will start looking into IPv6.
> There seems to be little help from CPAN so I'm afraid doing the IPv6
> server requires implementing rfc3315 from scratch. These does not scare
> me since I have implemented rfc's in the past but the time required to
> implement and test will obviously be extended considerably.

I would favior a Perl implementation, but only if code base is not too large.
Managing the whole IPv6 dhcp stack looks too much overhead for me.

Do you (or alexandre) have time to update the dnsmasqd based patch? 
Maybe the new firewall can help to implement all features we need?