Solaris 10 as DHCP server for an ISP
Hello,
Is Solaris DHCP server suitable for use by an ISP? We have more than ten thousand of clients and growing.
We used ISC DHCP on Linux in the past with standard text files backend, but because of difficult and inaccurate methods of automating the configuration changes (scripted text configuration files editing) we had switched to the ISC DHCP with LDAP backend patch. It provides configuration changes without daemon restarts but is too slow and buggy.
I抦 looking for an alternative. A quick view to the man pages showed that Solaris?DHCP server configuration can be changed dynamically using provided utilities, however only text files, binary files and NIS+ backend are supported. As I know, NIS+ support will be removed in the future versions of Solaris.
Could you point me the right way? We need stable DHCP with on-the-fly adding/removing of clients configuration, 82 option (relay information) support and storage backend, that could be shared between several servers for the redundancy.
Thank you for reply,
Aleksandr
P.S. If this forum isn抰 the right place for the such question, please point me to the right forum.
