Importing DHCPD into base tree

Scott Ullrich geekgod at geekgod.com
Sat Oct 16 11:22:51 PDT 2004


Are they running v3?  If so, thats an interesting solution if Matt agree's.

Scott

Andre Nathan wrote:

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote:


    isc-dhcp3 is a pretty ugly piece of code.  The last time I looked
    at it, which was about two years ago, I shivered at all the potential
    stack overflows and security holes.


What about OpenBSD's dhcpd? I believe they have cleaned up the ISC code,
and it now runs as an unprivileged user "_dhcpd".
Andre





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