Re: [Linuxmce-project] DHCP server on core

[tsuraan <ts...@gm...>]

> guys...
>
> why do some of you try to make this stuff 50,000 times harder than it
> ever should be?
>
> why don't you make the asterisk, mysql, dhcp/firewall servers you're
> using, the CORE.. install a core only installation on that
> machine....and use media directors where you want the HTPC
> functionality?

For my case, the router is a Geode/233 MHz with 128MB RAM and 256MB
"hard drive."  It's very low-power (4W wall-wart IIRC), and it and my
cable modem can run for many hours on their UPS.  The description of
the Core software makes it pretty clear that my firewall would be a
tad underpowered for that purpose.

I have an NFSv4 and Samba enabled file server, with about 1TB of
storage in hardware raid, with a ~1300 MHz processor and a good chunk
of RAM.   The slow processor there makes me think Core wouldn't be too
happy with that machine.  I'm also planning on re-building that
machine to Solaris 10 soon, and I'm guessing that LinuxMCE doesn't run
on Solaris.

The machine I'd like to run the Core on would by my gf's development
machine, which is a Core Duo (4600?) with gigE, lots of memory, and a
small-ish hard drive.  All files would be stored on the file server,
so that shouldn't be an issue, but the dev server does not serve dhcp;
it has to reboot sometimes, and I just really like having my firewall
do dhcp.

So...  Is there a way to have my firewall send its dhcpd logs to the
Core software so that it thinks it has a dhcpd server running, or do
you run a modified dhcpd that communicates directly with the Core
software?