Re: CentOS install (was: udhcpd question Debian squeeze)

This may be a little late. Nevertheless, here goes:

So I know that busybox is used mainly on embedded devices and such. I
run Tomato firmware on one of my Linksys routers at home. And I use
static DHCP with most machines on my LAN. So I thought I'd take a look
and see how Tomato does static DHCP addresses. Apparently, it doesn't
use udhcpd to do that! It uses dnsmasq to do that. Take a look at
this: http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html and
its option "--dhcp-host".

Cheers,
Vee.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Mike Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is quite possible the best kept secret of the Debian community. :-)
>
> I posted not only on this board, but also on the Debian support forum
> and didn't even get a reply there.
> I am not a Debian user, but have been pretty happy with Ubuntu until
> recently as newer releases have just felt "buggy".  I tried Debian as it
> seemed a close relative.  I ran "apt-get install dhcpd" and was told
> only that udhcpd would be installed as it was a replacement.  The
> package that you mention was never mentioned, nor could I find it
> mentioned on any searches of the inter-webs.
>
> I have been away from RedHat for awhile, mostly because of issues I had
> with "RPM dependency hell" in earlier releases that still give me
> nightmares.  Hopefully yum will address these problems.  For now, the
> CentOS 5.5 release looks like it will do what i need.
>
> Thanks for the (belated) reply, hopefully it will help someone else
> should they run into this issue.
>
> - Mike Scott
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] CentOS install (was: udhcpd question Debian
> squeeze)
> From: Martin Maney <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, March 20, 2011 6:54 pm
> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion"
> <[email protected]>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 02:16:37PM -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
>> After bailing on Debian's weak dhcpd, I moved on to CentOS.
>
> <cough> That was busybox's cheap imitation of a dhcp server. If you
> aren't worried about using a couple MB of disk space, you could install
> a real DHCP server: apt-get install isc-dhcp-server. I'm afraid I
> wasn't paying close attention, and assumed you were stuck with
> busybox's typically limited version of a real Unix program due to
> system constraints; if you aren't then this is one of those "the
> headache will go away if you stop beating your head on the wall" deals.
>
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