!News (2007)
**[26 march]** Next release preview. I will release next version of anemon before June. I made some screenshots of the new web interface [http://anemon.org/screenshots/|here] (look the preview_*.png images).

!News (2006)
**[24 may]** A critical bug was found in pydhcplib. You should upgrade to the [http://pydhcplib.tuxfamily.org/download/pydhcplib-0.3.2.tar.gz|new] version (0.3.2) of the pydhcplib to have a functional anemon server. 
**[1 april]** Svn repository changed, the repository is now hosted by tuxfamily.org
**[31 march]** Anemon-server version 0.1a  is available for testing ([http://www.anemon.org/files/anemon-server-0.1a.tar.gz|download]). Dbinit bug correction.
**[31 march]** I have installed the mantis bugtracker [http://anemon.org/bugtracker/|here]. Used it to report bugs on anemon. I\'m totally new to mantis, then tell me if you see problem/misconfiguration. Thanks.


!What is Anemon ?
The goal of the Anemon Dhcp Project is to create an implementation of the [http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dhc-charter.html|DHCP] protocol under GPL and a lot of stuff around to facilitate network management. The python [http://www.sqlobject.org/|sqlobject] modules gives anemon the ability to use many database as backend (mysql, postgresql, mssql, sqllite, sybase, etc..)

The project is subdivised (at the moment) in 4 components : 
* The Anemon Dhcp Server is a Python/SQL implementation of the DHCP server protocol
* The Anemon Web Center is a web management interface to Anemon Dhcp Server and [http://mydns.bboy.net/|MyDNS]
* The Anemon Dhcp Client will be a Python implementation of the DHCP client protocol
* The Anemon Dhcp relay will be a Python implementation of the DHCP relay protocol

!Benefits of sql backend
* No need to restart server when changing configuration
* Allow multiple users to edit configuration without root privileges
* Can easily add user management with subnet restrictions and authorisations
* Multiple dhcp servers for dhcp redondancy can be made easily : all servers use the same backend
* Your can use database server features for mirroring data
* Sql Configuration data can be removed from the dhcp server if you\'re afraid of dhcp server corruption
* Management interfaces can easily be created (web or not)
* No more syntaxe errors when editing the configuration

!Contact
* [mailto:mignacio/april.org|matou] ([http://matou.isanerd.net|website])