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Re: limit dhclient to one server only?



Jukka Marin wrote:
> The server and client(s) make a
> certain embedded product which may be connected to any kinds of LANs with
> unknown DHCP servers.  The server provides IP addresses to clients and also
> acts as a higher level server to the "dumb" clients.  We want to have all
> confuration options and functionality on the same server to keep it as simple
> as possible to the end user.  The system must also work without a need for
> any external devices like DHCP servers.

If you control both server and client, then you could simply run the
DHCP protocol on a pair of ports other than 67/68.
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost


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