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16 years ago

Latest version of DHCP-ISC

I have been using the DHCPD from dhcp-isc for a couple of years now (Version 2 Patchlevel 5, from 'uClinux-dist-20071107.tar.bz2') on a NIOS system. After increasing the network traffic, I discovered...
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16 years ago

Thanks for the response, Michael.

I found busybox about an order of magnitude slower than dhcp-isc. Detecting an array of 100 clients took nearly five minutes with busybox (almost 3 seconds each), while the ISC DHCPD needed only 30 seconds. Is this the expected performance of busybox?

I realize I am using an old version (1.5.1), but it seems like wishful thinking to hope the latest build is 10x faster. (I haven't tested this yet: the latest version won't work with my old distribution, and I don't want to tackle a full dist upgrade unless it's unavoidable -- too many custom drivers and not enough time).

I'm using NoMMU, but I'm not concerned with memory usage -- I have plenty to work with.