Re: MVP for a DHCP server
Mike Pumford <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:36:47 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network |
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On 15/07/2025 21:04, Mouse wrote: >> You configure the DHCP client to [...] > > You're assuming the DHCP client is configurable. Sometimes (eg, PXE > boot ROMs), they're not. > > Any DHCP server which can't be configured to serve a client-specific IP > based on MAC address is a nonstarter for some of my, at least, use > cases. (Which is not, of course, to say that such a feature is > necessary in an in-NetBSD-tree DHCP server. I would like it if it > were, but NetBSD long ago stopped caring about what I like.) > Not being able to use MAC Address to assign a fixed IP would be a show stopper for me. That's pretty much my entire use case for my NetBSD DHCP server where I'm currently using the in tree server. That's why I suggested a port of the OpenBSD one which even maintains some degree of configuration file compatibility with the ISC server. Mike