[Server-devel] [XSCE] Upgraded VirtualBox XSCE 0.4 in my Google Drive to 0.5

[Tim Moody]

"appliance mode" should really be called non-gateway as opposed to gateway. 
In gateway mode xsce provides dhcp leases as well as routing and name 
resolution and none of these in appliance mode.

Tim
-----Original Message----- 
From: James Cameron
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:48 PM
To: xsce-devel at googlegroups.com
Cc: server-devel at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [XSCE] Upgraded VirtualBox XSCE 0.4 in my Google Drive to 0.5

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 06:34:38PM -0800, Curt Thompson wrote:
> I have this set up now in "appliance mode", considering people may want
> to try it out without running a dhcp server and possibly breaking their
> network(s).

Does this really happen?  Wouldn't it be better to fix XSCE so that
the DHCP server is "not authoritative"?

dhcpd.conf(5) on a system here says

"      The authoritative statement

         authoritative;

         not authoritative;

         The DHCP server will normally assume that the configuration 
informa‐
         tion  about a given network segment is not known to be correct and 
is
         not authoritative.  This is so that if a naive user installs  a 
DHCP
         server  not fully understanding how to configure it, it does not 
send
         spurious DHCPNAK messages to clients  that  have  obtained 
addresses
         from a legitimate DHCP server on the network."

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/