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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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:22:03 +0100
From: Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk>
To: Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
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Kunal Chauhan <atkunalchauhan at gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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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