pccard_ether and dhcp handling - please decide ...

[Martin Blapp]

Hi,

> Sometimes I think we need to rewrite a BSD-friendly licensed
> dhclient...  Ah, so many projects, so little time.

At ImproWare, we have a our own dhcpd server for our DOCIS cable modem
suite, because ISC dhcpd sucked a lot and it was too difficult to add
database support to it. So Patg did rewrite it from scratch, with mysql
support and unsupported additions which were needed to support cable
modems properly.

A client would be easy to write based on the server code. Our server is
written in C++ and is very efficient and small.

It would also rock if one could define the options in a configfile, that means
you could say what the dhcp client should do if it gets a option "time-servers",
"nis-servers" etc. etc. Like this, our dhcp client would be very open.

>interfaces that it is listening to (I'm talking about having dhclient
>do this directly, and not via OMAPI or whatever it uses).

I think there should still be a way to talk to the server, a easy way would be
via RPC, or just direct via local unix domain socket. I like your idea, but it
should also be possible to send commands to the server.

Martin