DNS and DHCP diskless Server

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Fri Feb 13 02:41:10 UTC 2004


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, João Oliveira wrote:

> Now comes the itchy part; I have a Pentium II 333 Celeron(David) and I 
> wanted to put it to work as a small DNS and DHCP Server for Tania and Catia. 
> This way, I would have my hole network connected to the Internet without 
> much hassle.  David has no hard disk.
> Can I make Catia a BOOTP server with a small partition to boot David so I 
> wouldn´t need any hard drive to it??? Does any one knows a quick but 
> understandable way to do it?

I'd look into dnsmasq. You can find packages at:

	http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dnsmasq/

It's very easy to set up for a small network DHCP/DNS and it also can do 
BOOTP. I'm not sure if the documentation is very clear about BOOTP and you 
may need some prior knowledge to know what to configure.

Still, dnsmasq is probably the best way to go if you don't need all the 
advanced stuff from ISC bind and ISC dhcpd.

PS And if you want to score some good community-points you could volunteer 
to improve the dnsmasq documentation for setting up a bootp-server.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
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