[OLSR-users] Olsr Dhcp

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

sorry for the confusion:
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:47 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 13:32 +0530, Vinay Menon wrote:
> [...]
> > I wanted to know if if there is any Olsr DHCP plugin or something
> > which can help me with this.
> 
> Hopefully not. AFAICS you probably want a DHCP relayer on each node.
> 
> I'm an official speaker here but assignment of an IP adress is no
      *not*
> business for a "routing deamon" (and there are several different out
> there).
> The routing may or may not care about new/changing IP adresses but it is
> not it's business to *set* IP adresses on interfaces or integrate a DHCP
> server or relayer.
> 
> [...]
> > I am not sure if the issue i have is related to olsr or Openwrt.But i
> 
> No, you are touching a conceptual problem - the assignment policies in a
> IP net (which are set by the admins there) have absolutely nothing with
> the routing policies and deamons (which are set by the same or other
> admins).
> Yes, these areas have to work together but they are basically two
> different issues.
> 
> 	Bernd
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