Re: MVP for a DHCP server

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

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