[Olsr-users] Heads-up: AHCP redesign

[Alexander Morlang]

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Bernd Petrovitsch schrieb:
> On Son, 2008-12-14 at 09:35 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>>>>   - it needs to work across multiple hops;
>>> DHCP also works through multiple hops - one uses DHCP-Relayers for that.
>> You're right.
>>
>>> Of course one has to configure all that - but you have to configure DHCP
>>> in any case.
>> There are actually two ways to get multi-hop DHCP: relays and prefix
>> delegation.  As you note, DHCP will not automatically set-up relays, you
> 
> ACK.
> 
>> need to set up one relay per link manually.
> 
> One relay per router IMHO.
> And AFAIK with usual DHCP-relayers (the one from ISC-dhcpd, ones on the
> few CMTS I encountered), you can forward to exactly one DHCP-server
> (which is in large DHCP-managed networks like cable nets a problem. The
> usual solution is IMHO to have the usual HA-setup to have one IP
> address).

AFAIR, the freifunk leipzig croud tried to deploy dhcp relays in the
chaos communication camp mesh and it deeply failed.

i could ask them to write about it.

...

> 
> ACK.
> 
> 	Bernd

Alex
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