RE: [ros-dev] RE: ncpa

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:
>   
> >   From: Murphy, Ged (Bolton)
> >  
> >  I was thinking along the lines of stopping the DHCP service 
> >  and calling AddIPAddress, which should be the same as 
> >  inserting the address manually in the registry. I haven't 
> >  looked into this though, so might not work. 
>  
>  I kind of like the Windows design: the DHCP client service is actually
>  implemented in dhcpcsvc.dll (you can see the "ServiceMain" 
>  export). This
>  allows concentration of all usermode IP address/registry 
>  stuff in one DLL.
>  AddIPAddress would then call into dhcpcsvc. 
Do you know how much work would be involved in moving our DHCP client into
dhcpcsvc and implementing everything around this?
If it's quite a lot of work it might be worth me trying out what I
mentioned, just has a hack until we have time to do things the Windows way.

If your ReactOS work is going to concentrate solely on the kernel now, we
might be waiting a long time to get this implemented as nobody seems to want
to pick ncpa up. It's become the ReactOS forbidden fruit ;)

Any method would be good at this stage to get ncpa working, as it's our only
missing feature for the 0.3 release.

Ged.




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[Ge van Geldorp]

>   From: Murphy, Ged (Bolton)
>  
>  Do you know how much work would be involved in moving our 
>  DHCP client into dhcpcsvc and implementing everything around this?
>  If it's quite a lot of work it might be worth me trying out 
>  what I mentioned, just has a hack until we have time to do 
>  things the Windows way. 
It's probably mostly a matter of moving some source files around. While
thinking about it, it occurred to me that your solution (just shut down the
DHCP client when switching to a static IP address) isn't going to work when
you have multiple network cards.

>   If your ReactOS work is going to concentrate solely on
> the 
>  kernel now, we might be waiting a long time to get this 
>  implemented as nobody seems to want to pick ncpa up. It's 
>  become the ReactOS forbidden fruit ;)
>  
>  Any method would be good at this stage to get ncpa working, 
>  as it's our only missing feature for the 0.3 release. 
I hope I didn't give the impression "please implement it this way, otherwise
don't touch it". You're rightfully assuming that I won't be working on
ncpa
anytime soon. So, I have no "rights" to it. I was just thinking out loud how
I'd want to implement it, but hey, if you think a different method works
better please go ahead.

GvG