Re: dhcp-users Digest, Vol 141, Issue 26

[Kunal Chauhan]

>I doubt you could implement it in hardware - there's just so much involved. As both a primer and in-depth volume, I'd recommend you get hold of "The DHCP >Handbook" by Ted Lemon and Ralph Droms. That will explain how the protocol works, and hopefully give you an idea of just how much is involved.

Hi My point was I have linux board basically which is act as an acces point which will get some ips from server  as it will boot up  so want to implement DHCP functionality to it.

>Apart from anything else, if you were to implement just DHCP in hardware, what would you use the information for if there wasn't a software stack to use it ?
>So in reality, you'd be needing to use a full software stack - even if it was stripped down to the bare essentials. Once you are using software, then all the >components are already written for you.

Yes I basically want DHCP over linux board

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Kunal Chauhan <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am new to dhcp , I have read out dhcp docs at internet, but not clearly understand in a practical way how dhcp works on a piece of harware.
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> How it can be implemented on some harware or soc.

I doubt you could implement it in hardware - there's just so much involved. As both a primer and in-depth volume, I'd recommend you get hold of "The DHCP Handbook" by Ted Lemon and Ralph Droms. That will explain how the protocol works, and hopefully give you an idea of just how much is involved.

Apart from anything else, if you were to implement just DHCP in hardware, what would you use the information for if there wasn't a software stack to use it ?
So in reality, you'd be needing to use a full software stack - even if it was stripped down to the bare essentials. Once you are using software, then all the components are already written for you.

Simon



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[Simon Hobson]

Please don't top post, and please change the subject line if you reply to the digest - that's just good netiquette.


Kunal Chauhan <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi My point was I have linux board basically which is act as an acces point which will get some ips from server  as it will boot up  so want to implement DHCP functionality to it.

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> Yes I basically want DHCP over linux board

So basically you want to run a DHCP client on a GNU/Linux system ? That's a solved problem - you have a choice of clients (one of them being the ISC client) you can use, already there, ready to install from your distro's repository.

If you have a problem, then you'll need to explain what it is because I don't see any problem at the moment.

Simon

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