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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:29:51PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> > Package: udhcpd
> >
> > Description: very small DHCP server DHCP is a protocol like BOOTP
> > (actually dhcpd includes much of the functionality of BOOTPD!).
> > It assigns IP addresses to clients based on lease times. This
> > package is primarily geared towards embedded systems. It does
> > however, strive to be fully functional, and RFC compliant. . This
> > is the server-side application.
> 
> Do I need this?  The router seems to have it, so does the public library.
> I don't even need udhcpc once I know the IP address I am connecting to, I 
> can use ifconfig instead.

I don't think you should count on this working. First, you may not be able to 
easily find out what the
subnet range is. Secondly, if the gateway doesn't have your host's address 
registered (as it would if
you issued a dhcp request and were assigned one by a server on the subnet) 
you may not be able to do
anything on the network (other than maybe ping other hosts by guessing at 
their addresses). I don't
have a very thorough understanding of this, but experiences I've had with 
this indicate these networks
are likely to work this way.

James