Re: MVP for a DHCP server

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

 ---- On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:04:48 +0100  Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote --- 
 > > You configure the DHCP client to [...]
 > 
 > You're assuming the DHCP client is configurable.  Sometimes (eg, PXE
 > boot ROMs), they're not.

PXE does not need a static address.
The address the PXE DHCP client gets can be different from what the loaded kernel from the TFTP server gets.
Once the kernel takes over (assuming NetBSD) then the unconfigurable suddenly becomes configurable.

 > 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.)

Sadly I do care about what people need.
But often what they want isn't what they really need.

Roy