On 9/16/05, Kris Maglione <bsdaemon at comcast dot net> wrote:
>
> dnsmasq ('DNS Forwarder' in monowall)
> includes a DHCP server... I think m0n0wall uses it as a relay, but
> otherwise not. I've never tried it, but it may be an alternative. I
> suspect that there's a reason that it's not used in m0n0wall, since it
> would cut all of dhcpd's weight off of the distro.
>
I recall Manuel saying in the past it wasn't used as a DHCP server
originally because the functionality wasn't there when he got started.
Why it's still there now I don't recall, probably one of those "it
ain't broke so don't fix it" things. It's in the list archives
somewhere.
-Chris |