[SLL] DHCP server

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 16:37 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> I have a couple locations where I need a DHCP server on our network (remote 
> locations connected via a hardware VPN) and I was thinking I might use a 
> couple of our P2/P3 "junkers" for that and run linux on them.
> 
> What would you guys recommend for a DHCP server to handle maybe 50 clients at 
> one time (WAY more than we'll ever need at either location, but just picking 
> a figure out of the air!)
> 
> I think Fedora would be overkill and was thinking something like Puppy linux 
> or DSL or something like that.
> 
> Text-only interface would work for me. Don't need anything fancy, just 
> something to hand out IP addresses. Domain authentication would be handled 
> the way it is currently by our Windows 2003 DCs. Most of our users at these 
> two locations have hard-coded IP addresses. I'd just like someting quick and 
> easy to allow visitors from the main location (where my office is located) to 
> plug up to the network, get an IP address and get onto the WAN / internet.

Might also consider smoothwall or ipcop or the like. Yeah, they're
intended for a router, but no reason they can't also serve as just a
dhcp server, and both of those you can do cli config or web-based config
of their dhcp servers.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com