Bart Smit wrote:

> Hi Manuel & lists (cc-ing -dev),
> 
>> m0n0wall loses the DHCP lease database on reboot - this is a design 
>> choice.
> 
> 
> After actually digging up and reading the relevant RFC (2131), I feel 
> the need to reiterate my previously stated point that this is a bad 
> design choice. It conflicts with an explicit design goal of the DHCP 
> mechanism. To quote:
> 
>  > The following list gives design goals specific to the transmission of
>  > the network layer parameters.  DHCP must:
> [...]
>  >     o Retain DHCP client configuration across server reboots, and,
>  >       whenever possible, a DHCP client should be assigned the same
>  >       configuration parameters despite restarts of the DHCP mechanism,
> 
> I really feel this leaves no room for slack (apart from the fact that 
> I'm one of those rare folks that is actually bitten by the loss of state) .
> 
> Will a big "please" do? :-)
> 
> --Bart
> 
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I think you are going to have added cost as soon as you implement this: 
especially with a short lease time, your CF will wear out very soon.

But: is it possible to use an NFS mount for these kind of things? If you 
really need it you probably don't mind setting up another server w/ NFS 
(eh... am I the only geek with to many servers? :)). Or, is this too 
far-fetched?

Anyway, just a thought.

Michael