DHCP on the Cheap

Here’s a situation that I recently ran into.

I have a client that needed a TFTP Option 66 passed through their DHCP server. Primarily, this config was being pushed to their VOIP phone solution. Being that I’m a proponent of cloud computing and they don’t have a server – go figure –  I needed to get their DHCP service on their router to pass this configuration. Naturally, their router didn’t have an Option 66 config to be passed to network clients. And I didn’t want to set up a server dedicated to just DHCP services, so, what’s a cloud-guy like me to do?

Well, I disabled the firewall’s DHCP service and downloaded this open source DHCP Server for Windows. Great tool. Easy install. Configures itself as a service on a Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 machine. The config is an *.ini that’s easily edited, and the manual’s right online so it was pretty simple to get it running with the TFTP configuration. Took me ten minutes using a WinXP box. Bingo, bango, bongo.

So, if you’ve got a small office with 6-10 workstations that need more than a “standard” DHCP service, this wasn’t a bad option; I’d highly recommend it.

R

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