Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 04:40:09PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 10:57:29PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > A DHCP _server_ (or relay) isn't necessary for the kind of system
> > integration that justifies the maintenance burden of having it in the
> > base system -- unlike say, a DHCP _client_, which is needed to get
> > connected to the network and download packages in the first place.
> 
> Would this change leave NetBSD without a cross-buildable DHCP server?
> 
> Back when I built routers with NetBSD, it was beautiful how I could
> cross-build a system image that had a DHCP client and server in it with
> just one build.sh invocation.  To this day embedded systems do not
> ordinarily have an "on-line" installation and fetching packages is not
> part of the flow, so I don't see that as a fallback.
> 
> Back then, pkgsrc was not cross-buildable.  Maybe it is, now?

I tried to move to something similar simple as the in-tree ISC dhpcd
by looking at the pkgsrc options for DHCP servers, but besides the
new ISC variant (which loooked quite huge and a lot more complicated)
I found nothing that just did a DHCP server and has better support state
than ISC dhcpd.

I don't need a web frontend and central management for all of my DHCP
servers. And I don't want a combined DNS/DHCP solution, my DNS setup
is quite complex and just works, I'd prefer to not touch it.

Maybe I overlooked something.

Martin