Towards a unified /etc/config/dhcp

Paul D newtwen at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 17:35:07 PDT 2023


Given that they both cover similar ground, I think this is a good idea.

I am a user of both, on various platforms/OSes, although on owrt, I use 
dnsmasq almost exclusively for its broader functionality which also 
covers DHCP.





On 2023-07-27 00:26, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of ISC-DHCP which will be sunsetting soon.  I'd like to take the UCI wrappers that I wrote to handle quite a few configuration options and port those to Kea since this makes the most sense as a migration path for people wishing to retain their configurations.
> 
> That said, it strikes me that this is a broader "under-the-covers" implementation issue that we should shield users from.
> 
> Would it make sense to try to coordinate with the dnsmasq folks on implementing as much common functionality as possible?
> 
> Thanks.
> 




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