On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:41:22PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > 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.
This is such a simple method that due to constant lack of time I think I'm going to give it a try :-) Thanks! -jm
