SUMMARY: Some questions about joind.

From: <maurice.steyvers_at_ICA.UNIMAAS.NL>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:20:01 +0200

Below is the answer from Sean O'Connel which gives a good summary of the
several answers i received on my question:

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I found that joind was unfathomable and I was never able to
get it to do more than be a bootp server.  I have been using
the ISC dhcp server (version 2.0) to be both a bootp and a 
dhcp server under Tru64.  Also, the newer versions of the
ISC server (3.0beta series) have a lot of spiffy new features
including dynamic dns support which will be of interest to
large installations (which I am not) and pooling and a few
other features.  It might be worth either subscribing to or
at least looking throught the dhcp server list/archives for
the isc server.  The isc server does everything that you want
and has a pretty friendly dhcpd.conf file format unlike the
silly gui thing and lots of hash files that never seem to do
anything under joind (at least that was my experince).
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I've already setup a test environment with ISC DHCP version 2.0 and the
results look very promising. It can do all the things i asked for.
Thanks for the answers i received.
Maurice
The original question was:
> 
> For our university we're using a patched version of bootp-daemon
> (bootp-DD2.4.3) that can do some semi-dynamic DHCP assignment 
> (or better
> automatic assigment since it's not dynamic at all). 
> We're planning to migrate to a "real" DHCP server (if 
> possible on a UNIX
> server) because we need real dynamic assigment for the 
> growing number of
> notebooks. So what we need is a solution where about 80% of 
> our ip-adresses
> is assigned static (by mac address) and the other 20% is 
> assigned dynamic.
> The dynamic assigment must only be done to registered 
> mac-addresses (for
> security reasons).
> I'm thinking of using joind since it's included with True64 Unix. The
> questions i have are:
> 1: what version of joind are included with the several 
> versions of unix ?
> We're using Tru64 unix version 4.0d, e and f (no 5.0 yet). 
> 2: can joind be used to do the mix of static and dynamic assignment
> (especially with the, for us, important restriction that only 
> registered
> mac-addresses are allowed to use dynamic assignment !!).
> 3: are there any technical/functional reasons to go for the free dhcp
> version from ISC (http://www.isc.org) ?
> 4: in general i'm interested in experiences from anyone using 
> joind (is it
> stable ?)
> 
> Thanks,
> Maurice
> 

Received on Tue Apr 18 2000 - 07:30:27 NZST