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["Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>]

> Is anyone working on DHCP support?

Actively? None that I know.
But it seem the most wanted net team task so far :-)
 
> Also, what is the Net Team opinion on how this should be implemented? 
> Do you want to port dhclient and possibly dhcpd and dhrelay from BSD
> code?  Or should there be a new BeOS-specific implementation that 
> makes
> use of some of the nice features of BeOS (BMessages for live config
> updates for example.)

Well, mine is to first try to port BSD's dhcp, and if appear to be too 
hard (because our stack don't support this or that, or whatever), we 
could shift to:
- adapt the stack code to offer the missing support, if it worth it 
(that it if many other tools like dhcp will require it too)
- drop the "port from BSD" idea, and start from scratch a BeOS specific 
code.
DHCP is not that huge, so it doesn't matter that much if our 
implementation will be specific. In other feature case, like a future 
SAMBA client, it will another story... 

From my POV, DHCP support will need these:
- a dhcp protocol module, listening for DHCP packet, and offering thru 
an 
api still to design (ioctl() come to mind) a way to close an ip address 
leasing, etc
- a userland dhcp config tool (BONE have a dhconfig tool that allow to 
turn on and off dhcp support on a interface basis)
- For DHCP server and relay, I don't even know how under BSD it's done. 
Someone should investigate this.

> I've taken a quick look at the protocol and the basics seem to be 
> easy,
> so I'm considering working on this as my initial contribution to the
> net team.  But like others I'm working on other projects as well 
> (like
> the MIDI soft synth), so don't expect code in a few days ;)

Okay, I give you one full month then!
;-)
 
-Philippe Houdoin

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