{"id":664,"date":"2013-02-07T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=664"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:31:33","slug":"open-dhcp-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Open DHCP Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously used a Winform app that was a simple DHCP service to assign addresses on a closed LAN network for test servers.  It was unreliable, in that it would assign addresses but would never let the lease go beyond 15 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p>I just replaced it with Open DHCP Server.  If you are looking for a simple DHCP server, try this one: it is on SourceForge.net.  It installs on Windows as a service, and uses an easy to configure ini file (with lots of comments).  I like that I can assign addresses with an infinite lease.  It also has a web interface on port 6789 which shows the active addresses.<\/p>\n<p>A very simple and well written piece of software.  The project is located <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/dhcpserver\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously used a Winform app that was a simple DHCP service to assign addresses on a closed LAN network for test servers. It was unreliable, in that it would assign addresses but would never let the lease go beyond 15 minutes or so. I just replaced it with Open DHCP Server. If you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technologynetworking","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}