Re: udhcpd question Debian squeeze

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:16:57 -0600
Trev Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 09:20 -0500, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> > Trev,
> > 
> > I actually run a mixed DHCP and Static IP environment both at home
> > and at work. That way devices like laptops, Smartphone, my Wii all
> > get DHCP addresses but my servers, routers and various other
> > devices are all given dynamic IP's. I also have setup DHCPD to
> > register the names with DNS to make my life a lot easier lol. It
> > also lets me bring. A little bit of planning ahead and I was able
> > to lob off a /25 for my DHCP area. I have one area that is for my
> > servers, one that is for my networing devices like my AP, and my
> > IPv6 Router and my firewall. 
> > 
> 
> Well in that case you're all set :)  I just figured that since he was
> running on minimal resources (i.e. using busybox for most functions)
> dynamic DNS would really not be on the menu (unless using Dnsmasq DHCP
> which I've always had stability problems with).  The way you outline
> it will work quite well and even running a very old PC the server
> should be able to handle these insignificant loads.  It may take a
> bit more initial config to get setup though.

I was doing all that, and LDAP, NFS and a MythTV backend on an old box
a while ago. I was doing all that on a AMD 5200 with less then 1GB of
ram. It would load down quite a bit when Myth was doing transcoding.
But that was the main spikes I saw.
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