I recently had to answer some questions concerning micro-managing leases in the Weird Solutions DHCP servers, DHCP Broadband and DHCP Turbo. By micro-management, I mean having an external program that manages every lease externally, reconfiguring the DHCP server on...

DHCP allows you to give a host an IP address, but it also allows you to send a lot more information to the host through the use of options. DHCP options are internationally agreed-upon numbers, with an associated value, that represent specific information or settings....

The Weird Solutions DHCP server sends data to devices using DHCP options. These options are gathered from different sources in the server, merged into a response packet, then transported to the client at the same time as the client's IP address is delivered. Options...

The Weird Solutions DHCP server is really flexible. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired, however, so it can be daunting to configure until you understand the basics of what it's doing. When you define a pool in the DHCP server, you always have to state the...

In the last installment of this article I said I would explain how the Weird Solutions DHCP server recognizes which vendor's vendor-specific options are present, how you can make decisions using these options, and how to define vendor-specific options that will be...