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 From:  Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net>
 To:  Tim Vaughan <talltim at gmail dot com>
 Cc:  m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
 Subject:  Re: [m0n0wall] Question about dnsmasq vs. ISC DHCPD
 Date:  Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:13:24 +0100 
On 22.02.06 12:00 +0000, Tim Vaughan wrote:

> Why does m0n0wall use ISC dhcpd as well as dnsmasq?  From the docs,
> dnsmasq provides simple dhcp services in addition to DNS.  I would
> have thought that ISC dhcpd was redundant.
> 
> I'm sure there's a sensible explanation!

When m0n0wall was started, Dnsmasq didn't have DHCP server support.
That was added much later.

- Manuel